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Arts (672 articles)

General (3 articles)

1. The arts (Level 1)
2. Art (Level 3)
3. Artist

Architecture (58 articles)

See also Technology > Construction section

General (6 articles)

1. Architecture (Level 2)
2. Sacral architecture
3. Architectural drawing
4. Architectural theory
5. Proportion
6. Landscape architecture

Styles (16 articles)

1. Ancient Egyptian architecture
2. Ancient Greek architecture
3. Ancient Roman architecture
4. Baroque architecture
5. Byzantine architecture
6. Chinese architecture
7. Gothic architecture
8. Architecture of India
9. Islamic architecture
10. Megalith
11. Mesoamerican architecture
12. Architecture of Mesopotamia
13. Modern architecture
14. Neoclassical architecture
15. Renaissance architecture
16. Romanesque architecture

Specific structures (36 articles)

1. Acropolis of Athens
2. Alhambra
3. Angkor Wat
4. Borobudur
5. Burj Khalifa
6. Chartres Cathedral
7. Colosseum
8. Eiffel Tower
9. Empire State Building
10. Fallingwater
11. Florence Cathedral
12. Forbidden City
13. Great Sphinx of Giza
14. Great Wall of China (Level 3)
15. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
16. Hagia Sophia
17. Kaaba
18. Kinkaku-ji
19. Leaning Tower of Pisa
20. Machu Picchu
21. Moscow Kremlin
22. Notre-Dame de Paris
23. Palace of Versailles
24. Palace of Westminster
25. Pantheon, Rome
26. Parthenon
27. Sagrada Família
28. St. Peter's Basilica
29. Statue of Liberty
30. Stonehenge
31. Sydney Opera House
32. Taj Mahal
33. Temple Mount
34. Ziggurat of Ur
35. Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
    1. Great Pyramid of Giza (Level 3)

Cultural venues (22 articles)

General (3 articles)

1. Museum (Level 3)
2. Movie theater
3. Opera house

Americas (5 articles)

1. American Museum of Natural History
2. Metropolitan Museum of Art
3. Museum of Modern Art
4. National Gallery of Art
5. Smithsonian Institution

Asia (2 articles)

1. National Museum of China
2. National Palace Museum

Europe (12 articles)

1. British Museum
2. Hermitage Museum
3. Louvre
4. Musée d'Orsay
5. Musée National d'Art Moderne
6. Museo del Prado
7. National Gallery
8. Natural History Museum, London
9. Rijksmuseum
10. Tate Modern
11. Uffizi
12. Vatican Museums

Literature (218 articles)

Basics (37 articles)

1. Literature (Level 2)
2. Character
3. Literary criticism
4. Narrative
5. Prose
   1. Saga
6. Fiction (Level 3)
   1. Children's literature
   2. Detective fiction
   3. Fable
   4. Fairy tale (Level 3)
   5. Fantasy
   6. Fictional universe
   7. Horror fiction
   8. Legend
   9. Novel (Level 3)
      1. Romance novel
   10. Satire
       1. Black comedy
   11. Science fiction
       1. Time travel
   12. Short story (Level 3)
7. Nonfiction
   1. Biography
   2. Dictionary
   3. Encyclopedia
   4. Essay
   5. Thesaurus
8. Poetry (Level 3)
   1. Epic poetry (Level 3)
   2. Ghazal
   3. Haiku
   4. Ode
   5. Prose poetry
   6. Rhyme
   7. Sonnet
9. Writer

Literatures by language and area (18 articles)

1. African literature
2. Ancient Egyptian literature
3. Ancient Greek literature
4. Arabic literature
5. Chinese literature
6. English literature (Level 3)
7. French literature
8. German literature
9. Indian literature
10. Italian literature
11. Japanese literature
12. Jewish literature
13. Latin American literature
14. Latin literature
15. Persian literature
16. Russian literature
17. Scandinavian literature
18. Spanish literature

Specific works (163 articles)

Fiction (90 articles)

Fiction of antiquity (16 articles)

1. Aesop's Fables
2. The Bacchae
3. The Golden Ass
4. Investiture of the Gods
5. Journey to the West
6. Kadambari
7. Kathasaritsagara
8. Lysistrata
9. Medea
10. Oresteia
11. Oedipus Rex
12. One Thousand and One Nights
13. Panchatantra
14. Romance of the Three Kingdoms
15. The Tale of Genji
16. Water Margin

Fiction of early printed book era (16 articles)

1. Candide
2. Don Quixote
3. Dream of the Red Chamber
4. Goethe's Faust
5. Gulliver's Travels
6. Hamlet
7. King Lear
8. Macbeth
9. A Midsummer Night's Dream
10. Othello
11. La Princesse de Clèves
12. Robinson Crusoe
13. Romeo and Juliet
14. Tartuffe
15. The Tempest
16. Utopia

Fiction of modern era (55 articles)

1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
3. Anna Karenina
4. Brave New World
5. The Brothers Karamazov
6. The Call of the Wild
7. The Catcher in the Rye
8. A Christmas Carol
9. The Chronicles of Narnia
10. The Color Purple
11. Crime and Punishment
12. The Crucible
13. A Doll's House
14. Dracula
15. Eugene Onegin
16. Frankenstein
17. The Grapes of Wrath
18. Gravity's Rainbow
19. The Great Gatsby
20. Grimms' Fairy Tales
21. Harry Potter
22. Heart of Darkness
23. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
24. The Importance of Being Earnest
25. In Search of Lost Time
26. Jane Eyre
27. Les Misérables
28. The Little Prince
29. Little Women
30. Lolita
31. The Lord of the Rings
32. Madame Bovary
33. The Metamorphosis
34. Middlemarch
35. Midnight's Children
36. Moby-Dick
37. Nineteen Eighty-Four
38. On the Road
39. One Hundred Years of Solitude
40. Pride and Prejudice
41. The Scarlet Letter
42. Snow Country
43. The Sound and the Fury
44. The Sun Also Rises
45. Things Fall Apart
46. The Three Musketeers
47. To Kill a Mockingbird
48. To the Lighthouse
49. Ulysses
50. Uncle Tom's Cabin
51. Waiting for Godot
52. War and Peace
53. The War of the Worlds
54. The Wind in the Willows
55. Wuthering Heights

Comics (3 articles)

1. The Adventures of Tintin
2. Asterix
3. Peanuts

Nonfiction (48 articles)

Nonfiction of antiquity (23 articles)

1. Anabasis (Xenophon)
2. Analects
3. Apology (Plato)
4. The Art of War
5. The Book of Healing
6. The Consolation of Philosophy
7. Dead Sea Scrolls
8. Euclid's Elements
9. Hippocratic Corpus
10. Histories (Herodotus)
11. History of the Peloponnesian War
12. I Ching
13. The Incoherence of the Philosophers
14. Metaphysics (Aristotle)
15. Muqaddimah
16. Nicomachean Ethics
17. Organon
18. Poetic Edda
19. Popol Vuh
20. Republic (Plato)
21. Septuagint
22. Summa Theologica
23. Vulgate

Nonfiction of early printed book era (11 articles)

1. Critique of Pure Reason
2. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
3. A Dictionary of the English Language
4. Discourse on the Method
5. Encyclopædia Britannica
6. Gutenberg Bible
7. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
8. King James Version
9. Leviathan
10. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
11. The Prince

Nonfiction of modern era (14 articles)

1. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
2. The Communist Manifesto
3. Das Kapital
4. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
5. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
6. The Golden Bough
7. Night
8. On the Origin of Species
9. Oxford English Dictionary
10. Principia Mathematica
11. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
12. Silent Spring
13. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
14. The Wealth of Nations

Poetic works (25 articles)

Poetic works of antiquity (14 articles)

1. Aeneid
2. Beowulf
3. The Canterbury Tales
4. Divine Comedy
5. Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi
6. Epic of Gilgamesh
7. Iliad
8. Mahabharata
9. Masnavi
10. Metamorphoses
11. Nibelungenlied
12. Odyssey
13. Shahnameh
14. The Song of Roland

Poetic works of early printed book era (5 articles)

1. Shakespeare's sonnets
2. Paradise Lost
3. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
4. Oku no Hosomichi
5. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Poetic works of modern era (6 articles)

1. Duino Elegies
2. Leaves of Grass
3. The Raven
4. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
5. A Season in Hell
6. The Waste Land

Music (137 articles)

Basics (15 articles)

1. Music (Level 2)
2. Choir
3. Concert
4. Counterpoint
5. Harmony
   1. Chord
6. Melody
7. Music theory
8. Music video
9. Musical notation
10. Orchestra (Level 3)
11. Rhythm
12. Scale (music)
13. Singing (Level 3)
14. Song

Music genres and forms (47 articles)

General (6 articles)

1. Ballad
2. Christmas carol
3. Hymn
4. Lullaby
5. National anthem
6. Protest song

Western classical music (15 articles)

1. Classical music (Level 3)
   1. Fugue
   2. Aria
   3. Concerto
   4. Opera (Level 3)
   5. Sonata
   6. Symphony
2. Medieval music
   1. Gregorian chant
3. Renaissance music
4. Baroque music
5. Classical period
6. Romantic music
7. 20th-century classical music
8. Contemporary classical music

Non-Western music (5 articles)

1. Arabic music
2. Gamelan
3. Indian classical music
4. Music of China
5. Sub-Saharan African music traditions

Popular music (21 articles)

1. Blues
2. Country music
3. Disco
4. Electronic music
5. Folk music (Level 3)
6. Funk
7. Hip hop music
   1. Rapping
8. Jazz (Level 3)
   1. Bossa nova
   2. Ragtime
9. Pop music (Level 3)
10. Reggae
11. Rhythm and blues
    1. Soul music
12. Rock music (Level 3)
    1. Heavy metal music
    2. Punk rock
    3. Rock and roll
13. Salsa music
14. Samba

Musical instruments (42 articles)

1. Musical instrument (Level 3)
2. Electronic musical instrument
   1. Bass guitar
   2. Electric guitar
   3. Synthesizer
3. Percussion instrument
   1. Bell
   2. Cymbal
   3. Djembe
   4. Drum
   5. Piano
   6. Xylophone
4. String instrument
   1. Cello
   2. Double bass
   3. Guitar
   4. Harp
   5. Harpsichord
   6. Lute
   7. Lyre
   8. Mandolin
   9. Viola
   10. Violin
5. Wind instrument
   1. Accordion
   2. Bagpipes
   3. Brass instrument
      1. Horn
      2. Trombone
      3. Trumpet
      4. Tuba
   4. Harmonica
   5. Pipe organ
   6. Woodwind instrument
      1. Bassoon
      2. Clarinet
      3. Flute
         1. Pan flute
         2. Recorder
         3. Western concert flute
      4. Oboe
      5. Saxophone

Specific musical works (33 articles)

Baroque (5 articles)

1. Brandenburg Concertos
2. The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
3. Mass in B minor
4. Messiah (Handel)
5. The Well-Tempered Clavier

Classical (7 articles)

1. La mer (Debussy)
2. Nocturnes (Chopin)
3. Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)
4. Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)
5. Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)
6. Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
7. Symphony No. 41 (Mozart)

Opera (7 articles)

1. Carmen
2. Don Giovanni
3. Madama Butterfly
4. The Magic Flute
5. Der Ring des Nibelungen
6. La traviata
7. Tristan und Isolde

Ballet (3 articles)

1. The Nutcracker
2. The Rite of Spring
3. Swan Lake

Musicals (2 articles)

1. The Phantom of the Opera
2. West Side Story

Modern (9 articles)

1. The Dark Side of the Moon
2. Heartbreak Hotel
3. Johnny B. Goode
4. Kind of Blue
5. Like a Rolling Stone
6. Respect (song)
7. Rhapsody in Blue
8. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
9. Thriller (Michael Jackson album)

Performing arts (44 articles)

Basic concepts (4 articles)

1. Performing arts (Level 2)
2. Audience
3. Costume
4. Stage

Forms (40 articles)

1. Acrobatics
2. Circus
3. Clown
4. Magic (illusion)
5. Mime artist
6. Performance art
7. Performance poetry
8. Puppetry

Dance (14 articles)

1. Dance (Level 3)
   1. Choreography
2. Ballet
3. Ballroom dance
   1. Bolero
   2. Tango
   3. Waltz
4. Belly dance
5. Bharatanatyam
6. Flamenco
7. Folk dance
8. Hip-hop dance
9. Jazz dance
10. Modern dance

Theatre (18 articles)

1. Theatre (Level 3)
   1. Acting
   2. Stagecraft
2. Comedy
   1. Commedia dell'arte
   2. Improvisational theatre
   3. Joke
   4. Parody
   5. Stand-up comedy
3. Drama
   1. Tragedy
4. Broadway theatre
5. West End theatre
6. Kabuki
7. Musical theatre
8. Noh
9. Peking opera
10. Theatre of ancient Greece

Visual arts (109 articles)

Photography is listed under Technology

History of art (50 articles)

Pre-modern art (16 articles)

1. Academic art
2. Ancient Greek art
3. Baroque
4. Classicism
5. Dutch Golden Age painting
6. Empire style
7. Gothic art
8. Hellenistic art
9. Mannerism
10. Prehistoric art (Level 3)
    1. Cave painting
    2. Rock art
11. Realism (Level 3)
12. Rococo
13. Roman art
14. Romanesque art

Modern art (20 articles)

1. Modern art
2. Abstract art (Level 3)
3. Abstract expressionism
4. Art Deco
5. Art Nouveau
6. Arts and Crafts movement
7. Avant-garde
8. Cubism
9. Dada
10. Expressionism
11. Futurism
12. Impressionism
13. Modernism (Level 3)
14. Neoclassicism
15. Post-Impressionism
16. Postmodernism
17. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
18. Romanticism (Level 3)
19. Surrealism
20. Symbolism

Contemporary art (6 articles)

1. Contemporary art
2. Land art
3. Minimalism
4. Conceptual art
5. Outsider art
6. Pop art

Non-Western art traditions (8 articles)

1. African art
2. Chinese art
3. Indian art
4. Islamic art
5. Japanese art
   1. Ukiyo-e
6. Persian art
7. Visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas

Concepts and forms (29 articles)

1. Visual arts (Level 2)
2. Calligraphy (Level 3)
3. Ceramic art
4. Collage
5. Comics (Level 3)
   1. Manga
6. Decorative arts
7. Drawing (Level 3)
8. Engraving
9. Fashion
10. Folk art
11. Graffiti
12. Handicraft
13. Illustration
14. Mosaic
15. Mural
16. Optical illusion
17. Origami
18. Painting (Level 3)
    1. Landscape painting
    2. Oil painting
    3. Watercolor painting
19. Perspective (graphical)
20. Portrait
21. Religious art
22. Sculpture (Level 3)
23. Taxidermy
24. Textile arts
25. Wood carving

Specific works (30 articles)

Painting (19 articles)

1. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
2. Along the River During the Qingming Festival
3. Arnolfini Portrait
4. The Art of Painting
5. The Birth of Venus
6. Campbell's Soup Cans
7. The Garden of Earthly Delights
8. Guernica
9. The Last Supper
10. Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
11. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
12. Mona Lisa
13. The Night Watch
14. Nighthawks
15. The Persistence of Memory
16. The Scream
17. Sistine Chapel
18. The Starry Night
19. Water Lilies

Sculpture (8 articles)

1. David
2. Fountain
3. Olmec colossal heads
4. Pietà
5. Terracotta Army
6. The Thinker
7. Venus de Milo
8. Venus of Willendorf

Other media (3 articles)

1. Bayeux Tapestry
2. Book of Kells
3. The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Modern visual arts (60 articles)

Design (6 articles)

1. Design (Level 3)
2. Graphic design
   1. Typography
3. Interior design
4. Industrial design
5. Web design

Digital art (2 articles)

1. Digital art
2. Computer graphics

Filmmaking (52 articles)

General (8 articles)

1. Film (Level 2)
   1. Animation (Level 3)
      1. Anime
   2. Silent film
2. Filmmaking
   1. Cinematography
   2. Special effect
   3. Studio system

Cinema by country (8 articles)

1. Cinema of the United States
2. Cinema of France
3. Cinema of India
   1. Bollywood
4. Cinema of Japan
5. Cinema of China
6. Cinema of the Soviet Union
7. Cinema of Nigeria

Film festival and awards (3 articles)

1. Film festival
   1. Cannes Film Festival
2. Academy Awards

Films (33 articles)

Animation (1 article)

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Art film (1 article)

1. Mirror

Comedy (2 articles)

1. City Lights
2. Dr. Strangelove

Documentary (1 article)

1. Triumph of the Will

Drama film (18 articles)

1. 8½
2. Bicycle Thieves
3. Breathless
4. Children of Paradise
5. Citizen Kane
6. The Godfather
7. L'Atalante
8. La Dolce Vita
9. The Rules of the Game
10. Tokyo Story

Epic/Historical (6 articles)

1. The Apu Trilogy
2. Battleship Potemkin
3. The Birth of a Nation
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. Seven Samurai
6. The Seventh Seal

Horror/Thriller (2 articles)

1. Psycho
2. Vertigo

Musical (3 articles)

1. The Jazz Singer
2. Singin' in the Rain
3. The Sound of Music

Romance film (2 articles)

1. Casablanca
2. Gone With the Wind

Science fiction/Fantasy (4 articles)

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Metropolis
3. Star Wars
4. The Wizard of Oz

Western (1 article)

1. Stagecoach

Fictional characters (21 articles)

Mythological and Biblical characters are listed under Philosophy and religion

Western folklore (6 articles)

1. King Arthur
2. Baba Yaga
3. Cinderella
4. Faust
5. Robin Hood
6. Santa Claus

Eastern folklore (2 articles)

1. Aladdin
2. Hua Mulan

Literature and drama (5 articles)

1. James Bond
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. Peter Pan
4. Tarzan
5. Winnie-the-Pooh

Film, television, and games (3 articles)

1. Mickey Mouse
2. Donald Duck
3. Mario

Superheroes (5 articles)

1. Superhero
   1. Superman
   2. Batman
   3. Wonder Woman
   4. Spider-Man