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Arts, 667[edit source]

  1. Art
  2. The arts

Architecture, 60[edit source]

See also Technology>Construction section

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  1. Architecture
  2. Sacred architecture
  3. Architectural drawing
  4. Architectural theory
  5. Proportion
  6. Landscape architecture

Styles, 14[edit source]

  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. Modern architecture
  13. Renaissance architecture
  14. Romanesque architecture

Specific structures, 40[edit source]

  1. Acropolis of Athens
  2. Alhambra
  3. Angkor Wat
  4. Burj Khalifa
  5. Chartres Cathedral
  6. Colosseum
  7. Eiffel Tower
  8. Empire State Building
  9. Fallingwater
  10. Florence Cathedral
  11. Forbidden City
  12. Great Wall of China
  13. Hagia Sophia
  14. Kaaba
  15. Kinkaku-ji
  16. Leaning Tower of Pisa
  17. Machu Picchu
  18. Moscow Kremlin
  19. Notre Dame de Paris
  20. Palace of Versailles
  21. Palace of Westminster
  22. Pantheon, Rome
  23. Parthenon
  24. Sagrada Família
  25. Sistine Chapel
  26. St. Peter's Basilica
  27. Statue of Liberty
  28. Stonehenge
  29. Sydney Opera House
  30. Taj Mahal
  31. Villa Capra "La Rotonda"
  32. Ziggurat of Ur
  33. Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
    1. Colossus of Rhodes
    2. Great Pyramid of Giza
    3. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
    4. Lighthouse of Alexandria
    5. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
    6. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
    7. Temple of Artemis

Literature, 200[edit source]

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Basic concepts in literature, 28[edit source]

  1. Literature
  2. Book
  3. Character
  4. Fiction
    1. Children's literature
    2. Fable
    3. Fairy tale
    4. Fantasy
    5. Horror fiction
    6. Legend
    7. Romance novel
    8. Satire
    9. Science fiction
      1. Time travel
  5. Narrative
  6. Non-fiction
    1. Dictionary
    2. Encyclopedia
    3. Thesaurus
  7. Novel
  8. Poetry
    1. Epic poetry
    2. Ghazal
    3. Haiku
    4. Ode
    5. Sonnet
  9. Prose
  10. Short story

Specific works of literature, 172[edit source]

Nonfiction, 56[edit source]

Nonfiction of antiquity, 28

  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 Incoherence
  14. The Incoherence of the Philosophers
  15. The Maxims of Ptahhotep
  16. Metaphysics (Aristotle)
  17. Muqaddimah
  18. Nicomachean Ethics
  19. Organon
  20. Physics (Aristotle)
  21. Poetic Edda
  22. Popol Vuh
  23. The Republic (Plato)
  24. Septuagint
  25. Sum of Logic
  26. Summa Theologica
  27. Targum
  28. Vulgate

Nonfiction of early printed book era, 12

  1. The Birds of America
  2. Critique of Pure Reason
  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. Opticks
  11. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
  12. The Prince

Nonfiction of modern era, 16

  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 Souls of Black Folk
  15. The Varieties of Religious Experience
  16. The Wealth of Nations

Fiction, 89[edit source]

Fiction of antiquity, 17

  1. The Bacchae
  2. The Birds
  3. The Clouds
  4. Dashakumaracharita
  5. Fengshen Yanyi
  6. The Golden Ass
  7. Journey to the West
  8. Kadambari
  9. La Princesse de Clèves
  10. Oresteia
  11. Oedipus the King
  12. One Thousand and One Nights
  13. Panchatantra
  14. Romance of the Three Kingdoms
  15. The Tale of Genji
  16. True History
  17. Water Margin

Fiction of early printed book era, 17

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

Fiction of modern era, 52

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

Comics, 3

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

Poetic works, 27[edit source]

Poetic works of antiquity, 14

  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

  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, 8

  1. The Cantos
  2. Duino Elegies
  3. L'après-midi d'un faune
  4. Leaves of Grass
  5. The Raven
  6. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  7. A Season in Hell
  8. The Waste Land

Music, 155[edit source]

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Basics, 14[edit source]

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

Music genres and forms, 34[edit source]

  1. Baroque music
    1. Fugue
  2. Blues
  3. Bolero
  4. Classical music
    1. Aria
    2. Concerto
    3. Opera
    4. Sonata
    5. Symphony
  5. Country music
  6. Disco
  7. Electronic music
  8. Folk music
  9. Funk
  10. Gamelan
  11. Gregorian chant
  12. Hip hop music
  13. Hymn
  14. Indian classical music
  15. Jazz
    1. Bossa nova
    2. Ragtime
  16. Pop music
  17. Reggae
  18. Rhythm and blues
    1. Soul music
  19. Rock music
    1. Heavy metal music
    2. Punk rock
    3. Rock and roll
  20. Salsa music
  21. Samba
  22. Singer-songwriter

Musical instruments, 42[edit source]

  1. Musical instrument
  2. Electronic musical instrument
    1. Bass guitar
    2. Electric guitar
    3. Synthesizer
  3. Percussion instrument
    1. Bell
    2. Conga
    3. Cymbal
    4. Djembe
    5. Drum
    6. Piano
    7. 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
      4. Oboe
      5. Recorder
      6. Saxophone

Specific musical works, 63[edit source]

Traditional, 2[edit source]

  1. Auld Lang Syne
  2. Greensleeves

Baroque, 6[edit source]

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

Classical, 13[edit source]

  1. Années de pèlerinage
  2. Carmina Burana (Orff)
  3. The Creation (Haydn)
  4. Eine kleine Nachtmusik
  5. Le marteau sans maître
  6. La mer (Debussy)
  7. Nocturnes (Chopin)
  8. Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)
  9. Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)
  10. Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)
  11. Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)
  12. Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
  13. Symphony No. 41 (Mozart)

Opera, 8[edit source]

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

Ballet, 3[edit source]

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

Musicals, 4[edit source]

  1. Hair
  2. Oklahoma!
  3. The Phantom of the Opera
  4. West Side Story

Modern, 27[edit source]

  1. The Dark Side of the Moon
  2. Dixie (song)
  3. Guantanamera
  4. Happy Birthday to You
  5. Heartbreak Hotel
  6. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
  7. Imagine (John Lennon song)
  8. The Internationale
  9. Johnny B. Goode
  10. Like a Rolling Stone
  11. Over the Rainbow
  12. Pet Sounds
  13. Respect (song)
  14. Rhapsody in Blue
  15. Rock Around the Clock
  16. Rumours
  17. Saint Louis Blues
  18. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
  19. Stairway to Heaven
  20. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
  21. This Land Is Your Land
  22. Thriller (Michael Jackson album)
  23. We Shall Overcome
  24. What'd I Say
  25. What's Going On
  26. White Christmas
  27. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

Venues, 2[edit source]

  1. Music venue
  2. Opera house

Performing arts, 45[edit source]

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Concepts, 5[edit source]

  1. Performing arts
  2. Audience
  3. Costume
  4. Joke
  5. Parody

Forms, 40[edit source]

  1. Acrobatics
  2. Circus
  3. Clown
  4. Magic (illusion)
    1. Sleight of hand
    2. Escapology
  5. Mime artist
  6. Performance art
  7. Performance poetry
  8. Puppetry
  9. Stand-up comedy

Dance, 13[edit source]

  1. Dance
  2. Ballet
    1. Bolshoi Ballet
  3. Ballroom dance
  4. Belly dance
  5. Choreography
  6. Flamenco
  7. Hip-hop dance
  8. Folk dance
  9. Jazz dance
  10. Modern dance
  11. Tango
  12. Waltz

Theatre, 16[edit source]

  1. Theatre
  2. Audition
  3. Broadway theatre
  4. Comedy
  5. Drama
  6. Improvisational theatre
  7. Kabuki
  8. Musical theatre
  9. Noh
  10. Peking opera
  11. Playwright
  12. Stage
  13. Stagecraft
  14. Theatre of ancient Greece
  15. Tragedy
  16. West End theatre

Visual arts, 105[edit source]

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History of art, 36[edit source]

Pre-modern art, 12[edit source]

  1. Academic art
  2. Baroque
  3. Classicism
  4. Dutch Golden Age painting
  5. Empire style
  6. Gothic art
  7. Mannerism
  8. Prehistoric art
  9. Realism
  10. Rock art
  11. Rococo
  12. Romanesque art

Modern art, 16[edit source]

  1. Modern art
  2. Abstract art
  3. Abstract expressionism
  4. Art Deco
  5. Art movement
  6. Art Nouveau
  7. Cubism
  8. Dada
  9. Expressionism
  10. Futurism
  11. Impressionism
  12. Neoclassicism
  13. Post-Impressionism
  14. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
  15. Surrealism
  16. Symbolism

Contemporary art, 8[edit source]

  1. Contemporary art
  2. Land art
  3. Minimalism
  4. Conceptual art
  5. Op art
    1. Optical illusion
  6. Outsider art
  7. Pop art

Artist's tools, 9[edit source]

  1. Ink
  2. Modelling clay
  3. Paint
  4. Brush
  5. Pastel
  6. Pencil
  7. Pigment
  8. Pen
  9. Potter's wheel

Concepts and forms, 27[edit source]

  1. Visual arts
  2. African art
  3. Calligraphy
  4. Ceramic art
    1. Pottery
  5. Collage
  6. Comics
    1. Manga
  7. Craft
    1. Handicraft
  8. Drawing
  9. Engraving
  10. Fashion
  11. Fine art
  12. Folk art
  13. Graffiti
  14. Illustration
  15. Mosaic
  16. Mural
  17. Origami
  18. Painting
    1. Oil painting
    2. Watercolor painting
  19. Religious art
  20. Sculpture
  21. Textile arts
  22. Wood carving

Specific works, 33[edit source]

Painting, 24[edit source]

  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 (Botticelli)
  6. The Blue Boy
  7. Campbell's Soup Cans
  8. The Death of Socrates
  9. The Garden of Earthly Delights
  10. The Great Wave off Kanagawa
  11. Guernica
  12. The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci)
  13. Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe
  14. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
  15. Mona Lisa
  16. The Night Watch
  17. Nighthawks
  18. The Persistence of Memory
  19. The Scream
  20. The Starry Night
  21. Sunflowers (Van Gogh series)
  22. The Treachery of Images
  23. Water Lilies
  24. Wheat Fields (Van Gogh series)

Sculpture, 8[edit source]

  1. David (Michelangelo)
  2. Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
  3. Olmec colossal heads
  4. Pietà (Michelangelo)
  5. Terracotta Army
  6. The Thinker
  7. Venus de Milo
  8. Venus of Willendorf

Book art, 1[edit source]

  1. Book of Kells

Modern visual arts, 69[edit source]

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Design, 5[edit source]

  1. Design
  2. Graphic design
  3. Interior design
  4. Industrial design
  5. Web design

Digital art, 2[edit source]

  1. Digital art
  2. Computer graphics

Filmmaking, 62[edit source]

  1. Film
    1. Animation
      1. Anime
    2. Silent film
    3. Color motion picture film
  2. Filmmaking
    1. Cinematography
    2. Special effect
    3. Studio system
  3. Movie theater

Cinema by country, 8[edit source]

  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, 4[edit source]

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

Films, 40[edit source]

Animation, 1

  1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Art film, 2

  1. The Mirror
  2. Un Chien Andalou

Comedy, 3

  1. The General
  2. The Gold Rush
  3. Dr. Strangelove

Drama film, 13

  1. Bicycle Thieves
  2. Breathless
  3. Children of Paradise
  4. Citizen Kane
  5. The Godfather
  6. L'Atalante
  7. La Dolce Vita
  8. La Grande Illusion
  9. La Strada
  10. The Rules of the Game
  11. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  12. Tokyo Story

Epic/Historical, 9

  1. The Apu Trilogy
  2. Battleship Potemkin
  3. The Birth of a Nation
  4. Intolerance
  5. Lawrence of Arabia
  6. The Passion of Joan of Arc
  7. Rashomon
  8. Seven Samurai
  9. The Seventh Seal

Horror/Thriller, 3

  1. Psycho
  2. The Third Man
  3. Vertigo

Musical, 2

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

Romance film, 2

  1. Casablanca
  2. Gone With the Wind

Science fiction/Fantasy, 5

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

Fictional characters, 31[edit source]

Mythological and Biblical characters are listed under Philosophy and religion

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Characters from Western folklore, 9[edit source]

  1. Baba Yaga
  2. Cinderella
  3. Don Juan
  4. Faust
  5. Hansel and Gretel
  6. Robin Hood
  7. Santa Claus

Characters from Arthurian legend, 2[edit source]

  1. King Arthur
  2. Merlin

Characters from literature and drama, 9[edit source]

  1. Aladdin
  2. James Bond (literary character)
  3. Count Dracula
  4. Sherlock Holmes
  5. Hua Mulan
  6. Ossian
  7. Peter Pan
  8. Tarzan
  9. Winnie-the-Pooh

Characters from film, television and games, 6[edit source]

  1. Astro Boy
  2. Bugs Bunny
  3. Donald Duck
  4. Godzilla
  5. Mario
  6. Mickey Mouse

Characters from comics and modern folklore, 7[edit source]

  1. Buck Rogers
  2. Conan the Barbarian
  3. Superhero
    1. Batman
    2. Spider-Man
    3. Superman
    4. Wonder Woman