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Total 676 articles.

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Arts

This section contains 676 articles.

Arts: General

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Architecture

This section contains 59 articles.

For construction technology, see: Technology: Infrastructure.

Architecture: General

This section contains 6 articles.

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

Styles

This section contains 18 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. Iranian architecture
10. Islamic architecture
11. Megalith
12. Mesoamerican architecture
13. Architecture of Mesopotamia
14. Modern architecture
15. Neoclassical architecture
16. Postmodern architecture
17. Renaissance architecture
18. Romanesque architecture

Specific structures

This section contains 35 articles.

1. Acropolis of Athens
2. Alhambra
3. Angkor Wat
4. Arc de Triomphe
5. Borobudur
6. Burj Khalifa
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. Hagia Sophia
16. Kaaba
17. Kinkaku-ji
18. Kremlin
19. Leaning Tower of Pisa
20. Machu Picchu
21. Notre-Dame de Paris
22. Palace of Versailles
23. Palace of Westminster
24. Pantheon, Rome
25. Parthenon
26. Sagrada Família
27. Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
    1. Great Pyramid of Giza (Level 3)
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

Cultural venues

This section contains 20 articles.

Cultural venues: General

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Museum (Level 3)
2. Movie theater

Americas

This section contains 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

This section contains 2 articles.

1. National Museum of China
2. National Palace Museum

Europe

This section contains 11 articles.

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

Literature

This section contains 217 articles.

Basics

This section contains 38 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. Non-fiction
   1. Biography
   2. Diary
   3. Dictionary
   4. Encyclopedia
   5. Essay
   6. 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

This section contains 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 of fiction

This section contains 90 articles.

Fiction of antiquity

This section contains 16 articles.

1. Aesop's Fables
2. The Bacchae
3. The Golden Ass
4. Investiture of the Gods
5. Journey to the West
6. Kādambari
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

This section contains 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 (More book)

Fiction of modern era

This section contains 54 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. The Great Gatsby
19. Grimms' Fairy Tales
20. Harry Potter
21. Heart of Darkness
22. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
23. The Importance of Being Earnest
24. In Search of Lost Time
25. Jane Eyre
26. Les Misérables
27. The Little Prince
28. Little Women
29. Lolita
30. The Lord of the Rings
31. Madame Bovary
32. The Metamorphosis
33. Middlemarch
34. Midnight's Children
35. Moby-Dick
36. Nineteen Eighty-Four
37. On the Road
38. One Hundred Years of Solitude
39. Pride and Prejudice
40. The Scarlet Letter
41. Snow Country
42. The Sound and the Fury
43. The Sun Also Rises
44. Things Fall Apart
45. The Three Musketeers
46. To Kill a Mockingbird
47. To the Lighthouse
48. Ulysses
49. Uncle Tom's Cabin
50. Waiting for Godot
51. War and Peace
52. The War of the Worlds
53. The Wind in the Willows
54. Wuthering Heights

Comics

This section contains 4 articles.

1. The Adventures of Tintin
2. Asterix
3. One Piece
4. Peanuts

Specific works of nonfiction

This section contains 47 articles.

Nonfiction of antiquity

This section contains 23 articles.

1. Anabasis (Xenophon)
2. Analects
3. Apology (Plato)
4. The Art of War
5. The Book of Healing
6. On 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

This section contains 13 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. Encyclopédie
7. Gutenberg Bible
8. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
9. King James Version
10. Leviathan
11. Ninety-five Theses
12. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
13. The Prince

Nonfiction of modern era

This section contains 11 articles.

1. The Communist Manifesto
2. Das Kapital
3. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
4. The Golden Bough
5. Night
6. On the Origin of Species
7. Oxford English Dictionary
8. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
9. Silent Spring
10. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
11. The Wealth of Nations

Specific works of poetry

This section contains 24 articles.

Poetic works of antiquity

This section contains 14 articles.

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

Poetic works of early printed book era

This section contains 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

This section contains 5 articles.

1. Duino Elegies
2. Leaves of Grass
3. The Raven
4. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
5. The Waste Land

Music

This section contains 140 articles.

Basics

This section contains 16 articles.

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

Musical instruments

This section contains 43 articles.

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

Music genres and forms

This section contains 48 articles.

Music genres and forms: General

This section contains 6 articles.

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

Western classical music

This section contains 16 articles.

1. Classical music (Level 3)
   1. Aria
   2. Chamber music
   3. Concerto
   4. Fugue
   5. Opera (Level 3)
   6. Sonata
   7. 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

This section contains 5 articles.

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

Popular music

This section contains 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

Specific musical works

This section contains 33 articles.

Baroque

This section contains 5 articles.

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

Classical

This section contains 7 articles.

1. Nocturnes (Chopin)
2. Piano sonatas (Beethoven)
3. Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)
4. Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)
5. Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)
6. Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
7. Symphony No. 41 (Mozart)

Opera

This section contains 8 articles.

1. La bohème
2. Carmen
3. Don Giovanni
4. The Magic Flute
5. The Marriage of Figaro
6. Der Ring des Nibelungen
7. La traviata
8. Tristan und Isolde

Ballet

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Musicals

This section contains 2 articles.

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

Modern

This section contains 8 articles.

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

Performing arts

This section contains 45 articles.

Basic concepts

This section contains 4 articles.

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

Forms

This section contains 41 articles.

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

Dance

This section contains 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

This section contains 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

This section contains 110 articles.

For photographic technology, see: Technology: Optical technology.

History of art

This section contains 51 articles.

Pre-modern art

This section contains 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. Renaissance art
12. Rococo
13. Roman art
14. Romanesque art

Modern art

This section contains 21 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. Realism (Level 3)
19. Romanticism (Level 3)
20. Surrealism
21. Symbolism

Contemporary art

This section contains 6 articles.

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

Non-Western art traditions

This section contains 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 of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

Concepts and forms

This section contains 31 articles.

1. Visual arts (Level 2)
2. Art criticism
3. Calligraphy (Level 3)
4. Ceramic art
5. Collage
6. Comics (Level 3)
   1. Manga
7. Decorative arts
8. Drawing (Level 3)
9. Fashion (Level 3)
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. Printmaking
    1. Engraving
22. Religious art
23. Sculpture (Level 3)
24. Taxidermy
25. Textile arts
26. Wood carving

Specific works

This section contains 28 articles.

Painting

This section contains 17 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 Birth of Venus
5. Campbell's Soup Cans
6. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
7. The Garden of Earthly Delights
8. Guernica
9. The Last Supper
10. Las Meninas
11. Mona Lisa
12. The Night Watch
13. The Persistence of Memory
14. The Scream
15. Sistine Chapel
16. The Starry Night
17. Water Lilies

Sculpture

This section contains 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

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Modern visual arts

This section contains 60 articles.

Design

This section contains 6 articles.

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

Digital art

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Digital art
2. Computer graphics

Filmmaking

This section contains 52 articles.

Filmmaking: General

This section contains 8 articles.

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

Cinema by country

This section contains 8 articles.

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

Film festival and awards

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Films

This section contains 33 articles.

Animation

This section contains 1 article.

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Art film

This section contains 1 article.

1. Mirror

Comedy

This section contains 2 articles.

1. City Lights
2. Dr. Strangelove

Documentary

This section contains 1 article.

1. Triumph of the Will

Drama film

This section contains 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

This section contains 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

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Psycho
2. Vertigo

Musical

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Romance film

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Casablanca
2. Gone With the Wind

Science fiction/Fantasy

This section contains 4 articles.

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

Western

This section contains 1 article.

1. Stagecoach

Fictional and legendary characters

This section contains 22 articles.

For mythological and Biblical characters, see: Philosophy and religion: Mythology.

Western folklore

This section contains 6 articles.

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

Eastern folklore

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Aladdin
2. Hua Mulan

Literature and drama

This section contains 5 articles.

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

Film, television, and games

This section contains 3 articles.

1. Mickey Mouse
2. Donald Duck
3. Mario

Superheroes

This section contains 6 articles.

1. Superhero
   1. Superman
   2. Batman
   3. Wonder Woman
   4. Spider-Man
   5. Thor (Marvel Comics)