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Total 697 articles.
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Class | #Articles |
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{{Icon|FA}} FA | 32 |
{{Icon|GA}} GA | 34 |
{{Icon|B}} B | 246 |
{{Icon|C}} C | 355 |
{{Icon|FFA}} FFA | 30 |
{{Icon|DGA}} DGA | 44 |
{{Icon|Start}} Start | 30 |
=Arts =
{{Vital article count|697}}
Arts: General
Architecture
{{Vital article count|60}}
:For construction technology, see: Technology: Infrastructure.
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=Architecture: General=
{{Vital article count|6}}
- {{Icon|C}} Architecture (Level 2)
- {{Icon|C}} Sacral architecture
- {{Icon|C}} Architectural drawing
- {{Icon|C}} Architectural theory
- {{Icon|Start}} Proportion
- {{Icon|C}} Landscape architecture
=Styles =
{{Vital article count|18}}
- {{Icon|C}} Ancient Egyptian architecture
- {{Icon|B}} Ancient Greek architecture
- {{Icon|B}} Ancient Roman architecture
- {{Icon|C}} Baroque architecture
- {{Icon|C}} Byzantine architecture
- {{Icon|B}} Chinese architecture
- {{Icon|C}} Gothic architecture
- {{Icon|B}} Architecture of India
- {{Icon|C}} Iranian architecture
- {{Icon|C}} Islamic architecture
- {{Icon|C}} Megalith
- {{Icon|B}} Mesoamerican architecture
- {{Icon|C}} Architecture of Mesopotamia
- {{Icon|C}} Modern architecture
- {{Icon|C}} Neoclassical architecture
- {{Icon|C}} Postmodern architecture
- {{Icon|B}} Renaissance architecture
- {{Icon|B}} Romanesque architecture
=Specific structures =
{{Vital article count|36}}
- {{Icon|C}} Acropolis of Athens
- {{Icon|B}} Alhambra
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Angkor Wat
- {{Icon|B}} Arc de Triomphe
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Borobudur
- {{Icon|B}} Burj Khalifa
- {{Icon|B}} Colosseum
- {{Icon|C}} Eiffel Tower
- {{Icon|GA}} Empire State Building
- {{Icon|GA}} Fallingwater
- {{Icon|C}} Florence Cathedral
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Forbidden City
- {{Icon|B}} Great Sphinx of Giza
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Golden Temple
- {{Icon|B}} Great Wall of China (Level 3)
- {{Icon|B}} Hagia Sophia
- {{Icon|B}} Kaaba
- {{Icon|C}} Kinkaku-ji
- {{Icon|C}} Kremlin
- {{Icon|B}} Leaning Tower of Pisa
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Machu Picchu
- {{Icon|B}} Notre-Dame de Paris
- {{Icon|B}} Palace of Versailles
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Palace of Westminster
- {{Icon|B}} Pantheon, Rome
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Parthenon
- {{Icon|B}} Sagrada Família
- {{Icon|C}} Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Great Pyramid of Giza (Level 3)
- {{Icon|B}} St. Peter's Basilica
- {{Icon|FA}} Statue of Liberty
- {{Icon|B}} Stonehenge
- {{Icon|B}} Sydney Opera House
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Taj Mahal
- {{Icon|B}} Temple Mount
- {{Icon|C}} Ziggurat of Ur
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Cultural venues
{{Vital article count|20}}
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=Cultural venues: General=
{{Vital article count|2}}
- {{Icon|B}} Museum (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Movie theater
=Americas =
{{Vital article count|5}}
- {{Icon|B}} American Museum of Natural History
- {{Icon|B}} Metropolitan Museum of Art
- {{Icon|B}} Museum of Modern Art
- {{Icon|C}} National Gallery of Art
- {{Icon|C}} Smithsonian Institution
=Asia =
{{Vital article count|2}}
- {{Icon|C}} National Museum of China
- {{Icon|C}} National Palace Museum
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=Europe =
{{Vital article count|11}}
- {{Icon|B}} British Museum
- {{Icon|C}} Hermitage Museum
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Louvre
- {{Icon|Start}} Musée National d'Art Moderne
- {{Icon|C}} Museo del Prado
- {{Icon|GA}} National Gallery
- {{Icon|C}} Natural History Museum, London
- {{Icon|C}} Rijksmuseum
- {{Icon|B}} Tate Modern
- {{Icon|C}} Uffizi
- {{Icon|C}} Vatican Museums
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Literature
{{Vital article count|222}}
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=Basics =
{{Vital article count|40}}
- {{Icon|B}} Literature (Level 2)
- {{Icon|B}} Character
- {{Icon|C}} Superhero
- {{Icon|Start}} Literary criticism
- {{Icon|B}} Narrative
- {{Icon|Start}} Prose
- {{Icon|C}} Saga
- {{Icon|C}} Fiction (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Children's literature
- {{Icon|C}} Detective fiction
- {{Icon|C}} Fable
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Fairy tale
- {{Icon|C}} Fantasy
- {{Icon|Start}} Fictional universe
- {{Icon|B}} Horror fiction
- {{Icon|C}} Legend
- {{Icon|C}} Novel (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Romance novel
- {{Icon|C}} Satire
- {{Icon|C}} Black comedy
- {{Icon|B}} Science fiction
- {{Icon|B}} Time travel
- {{Icon|C}} Short story (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Utopia
- {{Icon|C}} Non-fiction (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Biography
- {{Icon|B}} Diary
- {{Icon|C}} Dictionary
- {{Icon|C}} Encyclopedia
- {{Icon|C}} Essay
- {{Icon|C}} Thesaurus
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Poetry (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Epic poetry
- {{Icon|C}} Ghazal
- {{Icon|C}} Haiku
- {{Icon|Start}} Ode
- {{Icon|Start}} Prose poetry
- {{Icon|C}} Rhyme
- {{Icon|C}} Sonnet
- {{Icon|C}} Writer
=Literatures by language and area =
{{Vital article count|18}}
- {{Icon|C}} African literature
- {{Icon|FA}} Ancient Egyptian literature
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Ancient Greek literature
- {{Icon|C}} Arabic literature
- {{Icon|C}} Chinese literature
- {{Icon|C}} English literature (Level 3)
- {{Icon|Start}} French literature
- {{Icon|C}} German literature
- {{Icon|B}} Indian literature
- {{Icon|B}} Italian literature
- {{Icon|C}} Japanese literature
- {{Icon|C}} Jewish literature
- {{Icon|C}} Latin American literature
- {{Icon|Start}} Latin literature
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Persian literature
- {{Icon|C}} Russian literature
- {{Icon|Start}} Scandinavian literature
- {{Icon|C}} Spanish literature
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=Specific works of fiction =
{{Vital article count|93}}
== Fiction of antiquity ==
{{Vital article count|17}}
- {{Icon|C}} Aesop's Fables
- {{Icon|C}} The Bacchae
- {{Icon|C}} The Golden Ass
- {{Icon|C}} Investiture of the Gods
- {{Icon|C}} Journey to the West
- {{Icon|Start}} Kādambarī
- {{Icon|C}} Kathasaritsagara
- {{Icon|C}} Lysistrata
- {{Icon|C}} Medea
- {{Icon|C}} Oresteia
- {{Icon|B}} Oedipus Rex
- {{Icon|B}} One Thousand and One Nights
- {{Icon|C}} Aladdin
- {{Icon|B}} Panchatantra
- {{Icon|C}} Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- {{Icon|B}} The Tale of Genji
- {{Icon|C}} Water Margin
== Fiction of early printed book era ==
{{Vital article count|17}}
- {{Icon|FA}} Candide
- {{Icon|B}} Cinderella
- {{Icon|B}} Don Quixote
- {{Icon|B}} Dream of the Red Chamber
- {{Icon|C}} Goethe's Faust
- {{Icon|C}} Gulliver's Travels
- {{Icon|FA}} Hamlet
- {{Icon|B}} King Lear
- {{Icon|C}} Macbeth
- {{Icon|B}} A Midsummer Night's Dream
- {{Icon|B}} Othello
- {{Icon|C}} La Princesse de Clèves
- {{Icon|C}} Robinson Crusoe
- {{Icon|FA}} Romeo and Juliet
- {{Icon|C}} Tartuffe
- {{Icon|GA}} The Tempest
- {{Icon|C}} Utopia (More book)
== Fiction of modern era ==
{{Vital article count|54}}
- {{Icon|B}} Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- {{Icon|B}} Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- {{Icon|C}} Anna Karenina
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Brave New World
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} The Brothers Karamazov
- {{Icon|B}} The Call of the Wild
- {{Icon|B}} The Catcher in the Rye
- {{Icon|FA}} A Christmas Carol
- {{Icon|C}} The Chronicles of Narnia
- {{Icon|C}} The Color Purple
- {{Icon|GA}} Crime and Punishment
- {{Icon|C}} The Crucible
- {{Icon|B}} A Doll's House
- {{Icon|FA}} {{Icon|FFAC}} Dracula
- {{Icon|B}} Eugene Onegin
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Frankenstein
- {{Icon|B}} The Grapes of Wrath
- {{Icon|FA}} The Great Gatsby
- {{Icon|C}} Grimms' Fairy Tales
- {{Icon|GA}} Harry Potter
- {{Icon|B}} Heart of Darkness
- {{Icon|C}} The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
- {{Icon|FA}} The Importance of Being Earnest
- {{Icon|C}} In Search of Lost Time
- {{Icon|C}} Jane Eyre
- {{Icon|C}} Les Misérables
- {{Icon|B}} The Little Prince
- {{Icon|C}} Little Women
- {{Icon|B}} Lolita
- {{Icon|GA}} {{Icon|FFA}} The Lord of the Rings
- {{Icon|C}} Madame Bovary
- {{Icon|C}} The Metamorphosis
- {{Icon|B}} Middlemarch
- {{Icon|C}} Midnight's Children
- {{Icon|B}} Moby-Dick
- {{Icon|B}} Nineteen Eighty-Four
- {{Icon|B}} On the Road
- {{Icon|B}} One Hundred Years of Solitude
- {{Icon|B}} Pride and Prejudice
- {{Icon|B}} The Scarlet Letter
- {{Icon|Start}} Snow Country
- {{Icon|C}} The Sound and the Fury
- {{Icon|FA}} The Sun Also Rises
- {{Icon|C}} Things Fall Apart
- {{Icon|C}} The Three Musketeers
- {{Icon|FA}} To Kill a Mockingbird
- {{Icon|C}} To the Lighthouse
- {{Icon|C}} Ulysses
- {{Icon|FA}} Uncle Tom's Cabin
- {{Icon|B}} Waiting for Godot
- {{Icon|B}} War and Peace
- {{Icon|C}} The War of the Worlds
- {{Icon|C}} The Wind in the Willows
- {{Icon|C}} Wuthering Heights
== Comics ==
{{Vital article count|5}}
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} The Adventures of Tintin
- {{Icon|B}} Asterix
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Dragon Ball
- {{Icon|GA}} One Piece
- {{Icon|B}} Peanuts
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=Specific works of nonfiction =
{{Vital article count|47}}
== Nonfiction of antiquity ==
{{Vital article count|23}}
- {{Icon|C}} Anabasis (Xenophon)
- {{Icon|B}} Analects
- {{Icon|C}} Apology (Plato)
- {{Icon|B}} The Art of War
- {{Icon|C}} The Book of Healing
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} On the Consolation of Philosophy
- {{Icon|B}} Dead Sea Scrolls
- {{Icon|B}} Euclid's Elements
- {{Icon|C}} Hippocratic Corpus
- {{Icon|C}} Histories (Herodotus)
- {{Icon|C}} History of the Peloponnesian War
- {{Icon|GA}} I Ching
- {{Icon|Start}} The Incoherence of the Philosophers
- {{Icon|C}} Metaphysics (Aristotle)
- {{Icon|B}} Muqaddimah
- {{Icon|C}} Nicomachean Ethics
- {{Icon|C}} Organon
- {{Icon|B}} Poetic Edda
- {{Icon|B}} Popol Vuh
- {{Icon|C}} Republic (Plato)
- {{Icon|B}} Septuagint
- {{Icon|C}} Summa Theologica
- {{Icon|B}} Vulgate
== Nonfiction of early printed book era ==
{{Vital article count|13}}
- {{Icon|C}} Critique of Pure Reason
- {{Icon|C}} De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
- {{Icon|C}} A Dictionary of the English Language
- {{Icon|C}} Discourse on the Method
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Encyclopædia Britannica
- {{Icon|C}} Encyclopédie
- {{Icon|C}} Gutenberg Bible
- {{Icon|C}} The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} King James Version
- {{Icon|C}} Leviathan
- {{Icon|FA}} Ninety-five Theses
- {{Icon|B}} Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
- {{Icon|C}} The Prince
== Nonfiction of modern era ==
{{Vital article count|11}}
- {{Icon|C}} The Communist Manifesto
- {{Icon|C}} Das Kapital
- {{Icon|C}} The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- {{Icon|C}} The Golden Bough
- {{Icon|FA}} Night
- {{Icon|FA}} On the Origin of Species
- {{Icon|B}} Oxford English Dictionary
- {{Icon|C}} Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
- {{Icon|B}} Silent Spring
- {{Icon|B}} The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- {{Icon|C}} The Wealth of Nations
=Specific works of poetry =
{{Vital article count|24}}
== Poetic works of antiquity ==
{{Vital article count|14}}
- {{Icon|B}} Aeneid
- {{Icon|GA}} Beowulf
- {{Icon|B}} The Canterbury Tales
- {{Icon|B}} Divine Comedy
- {{Icon|C}} Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi
- {{Icon|B}} Epic of Gilgamesh
- {{Icon|C}} Iliad
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Mahabharata
- {{Icon|C}} Masnavi
- {{Icon|C}} Metamorphoses
- {{Icon|C}} Nibelungenlied
- {{Icon|GA}} Odyssey
- {{Icon|C}} Shahnameh
- {{Icon|C}} Song of Roland
== Poetic works of early printed book era ==
{{Vital article count|5}}
- {{Icon|B}} Shakespeare's sonnets
- {{Icon|C}} Paradise Lost
- {{Icon|C}} Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- {{Icon|C}} Oku no Hosomichi
- {{Icon|C}} Songs of Innocence and of Experience
== Poetic works of modern era ==
{{Vital article count|5}}
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Duino Elegies
- {{Icon|C}} Leaves of Grass
- {{Icon|FA}} The Raven
- {{Icon|C}} The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- {{Icon|GA}} The Waste Land
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Music
{{Vital article count|144}}
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=Basics =
{{Vital article count|17}}
- {{Icon|B}} Music (Level 2)
- {{Icon|B}} Album
- {{Icon|C}} Choir
- {{Icon|C}} Concert
- {{Icon|C}} Counterpoint
- {{Icon|C}} Harmony
- {{Icon|C}} Chord
- {{Icon|Start}} Melody
- {{Icon|C}} Musicology
- {{Icon|B}} Music theory
- {{Icon|B}} Music video
- {{Icon|C}} Musical notation
- {{Icon|C}} Orchestra (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Rhythm (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Scale (music)
- {{Icon|C}} Singing (Level 3)
- {{Icon|Start}} Song
=Musical instruments =
{{Vital article count|43}}
- {{Icon|GA}} Musical instrument (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Electronic musical instrument
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Synthesizer
- {{Icon|Start}} Keyboard instrument
- {{Icon|B}} Accordion
- {{Icon|B}} Harpsichord
- {{Icon|C}} Piano
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Pipe organ
- {{Icon|C}} Percussion instrument
- {{Icon|C}} Bell
- {{Icon|C}} Cymbal
- {{Icon|B}} Djembe
- {{Icon|C}} Drum
- {{Icon|C}} Xylophone
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} String instrument
- {{Icon|C}} Bass guitar
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Cello
- {{Icon|C}} Double bass
- {{Icon|C}} Electric guitar
- {{Icon|C}} Guitar
- {{Icon|C}} Harp
- {{Icon|C}} Lute
- {{Icon|C}} Lyre
- {{Icon|C}} Mandolin
- {{Icon|C}} Viola
- {{Icon|B}} Violin
- {{Icon|Start}} Wind instrument
- {{Icon|C}} Bagpipes
- {{Icon|C}} Brass instrument
- {{Icon|B}} Horn
- {{Icon|C}} Trombone
- {{Icon|C}} Trumpet
- {{Icon|C}} Tuba
- {{Icon|C}} Harmonica
- {{Icon|B}} Woodwind instrument
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Bassoon
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Clarinet
- {{Icon|B}} Flute
- {{Icon|Start}} Pan flute
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Recorder
- {{Icon|B}} Western concert flute
- {{Icon|C}} Oboe
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Saxophone
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=Music genres and forms =
{{Vital article count|51}}
==Music genres and forms: General==
{{Vital article count|7}}
- {{Icon|C}} Music genre
- {{Icon|B}} Ballad
- {{Icon|C}} Christmas carol
- {{Icon|B}} Hymn
- {{Icon|C}} Lullaby
- {{Icon|C}} National anthem
- {{Icon|B}} Protest song
==Western classical music ==
{{Vital article count|16}}
- {{Icon|B}} Classical music (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Aria
- {{Icon|B}} Chamber music
- {{Icon|B}} Concerto
- {{Icon|B}} Fugue
- {{Icon|B}} Opera (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Sonata
- {{Icon|C}} Symphony
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Medieval music
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Gregorian chant
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Renaissance music
- {{Icon|C}} Baroque music
- {{Icon|Start}} Classical period
- {{Icon|C}} Romantic music
- {{Icon|C}} 20th-century classical music
- {{Icon|C}} Contemporary classical music
==Non-Western music ==
{{Vital article count|5}}
- {{Icon|C}} Arabic music
- {{Icon|B}} Music of Africa
- {{Icon|B}} Gamelan
- {{Icon|B}} Indian classical music
- {{Icon|C}} Music of China
==Popular music ==
{{Vital article count|23}}
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Blues
- {{Icon|B}} Country music
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Disco
- {{Icon|B}} Electronic music
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Folk music (Level 3)
- {{Icon|B}} Funk
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Hip-hop
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Rapping
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Jazz (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Bossa nova
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Ragtime
- {{Icon|B}} Pop music (Level 3)
- {{Icon|B}} J-pop
- {{Icon|B}} K-pop
- {{Icon|B}} Reggae
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Rhythm and blues
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Soul music
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Rock music (Level 3)
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Heavy metal music
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Punk rock
- {{Icon|B}} Rock and roll
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Salsa music
- {{Icon|B}} Samba
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=Specific musical works =
{{Vital article count|33}}
==Baroque ==
{{Vital article count|5}}
- {{Icon|B}} Brandenburg Concertos
- {{Icon|C}} The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
- {{Icon|B}} Mass in B minor
- {{Icon|FA}} Messiah (Handel)
- {{Icon|B}} The Well-Tempered Clavier
==Classical ==
{{Vital article count|7}}
- {{Icon|C}} Nocturnes (Chopin)
- {{Icon|Start}} Piano sonatas (Beethoven)
- {{Icon|B}} Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)
- {{Icon|B}} Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)
- {{Icon|C}} Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)
- {{Icon|B}} Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
- {{Icon|C}} Symphony No. 41 (Mozart)
==Opera ==
{{Vital article count|8}}
- {{Icon|B}} La bohème
- {{Icon|FA}} Carmen
- {{Icon|B}} Don Giovanni
- {{Icon|B}} The Magic Flute
- {{Icon|B}} The Marriage of Figaro
- {{Icon|B}} Der Ring des Nibelungen
- {{Icon|B}} La traviata
- {{Icon|B}} Tristan und Isolde
==Ballet ==
{{Vital article count|3}}
- {{Icon|B}} The Nutcracker
- {{Icon|FA}} The Rite of Spring
- {{Icon|C}} Swan Lake
==Musicals ==
{{Vital article count|2}}
- {{Icon|B}} The Phantom of the Opera
- {{Icon|B}} West Side Story
==Modern ==
{{Vital article count|8}}
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Bohemian Rhapsody
- {{Icon|GA}} Gangnam Style
- {{Icon|C}} Johnny B. Goode
- {{Icon|GA}} Kind of Blue
- {{Icon|FA}} Like a Rolling Stone
- {{Icon|B}} Rhapsody in Blue
- {{Icon|FA}} Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- {{Icon|FA}} Thriller (Michael Jackson album)
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Performing arts
{{Vital article count|45}}
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=Basic concepts =
=Forms =
{{Vital article count|40}}
- {{Icon|Start}} Acrobatics
- {{Icon|C}} Burlesque
- {{Icon|B}} Circus
- {{Icon|B}} Clown
- {{Icon|B}} Magic (illusion)
- {{Icon|C}} Mime artist
- {{Icon|C}} Performance art
- {{Icon|C}} Puppetry
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==Dance ==
{{Vital article count|14}}
- {{Icon|C}} Dance (Level 3)
- {{Icon|Start}} Choreography
- {{Icon|B}} Ballet
- {{Icon|C}} Ballroom dance
- {{Icon|C}} Bolero
- {{Icon|C}} Tango
- {{Icon|C}} Waltz
- {{Icon|B}} Belly dance
- {{Icon|B}} Bharatanatyam
- {{Icon|B}} Flamenco
- {{Icon|Start}} Folk dance
- {{Icon|GA}} Hip-hop dance
- {{Icon|Start}} Jazz dance
- {{Icon|C}} Modern dance
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==Theatre ==
{{Vital article count|18}}
- {{Icon|C}} Theatre (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Acting
- {{Icon|Start}} Stagecraft
- {{Icon|C}} Comedy
- {{Icon|C}} Commedia dell'arte
- {{Icon|C}} Improvisational theatre
- {{Icon|B}} Joke
- {{Icon|C}} Parody
- {{Icon|C}} Stand-up comedy
- {{Icon|C}} Drama
- {{Icon|C}} Tragedy
- {{Icon|B}} Broadway theatre
- {{Icon|B}} West End theatre
- {{Icon|B}} Kabuki
- {{Icon|B}} Musical theatre
- {{Icon|GA}} Noh
- {{Icon|FA}} Peking opera
- {{Icon|C}} Theatre of ancient Greece
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Visual arts
{{Vital article count|119}}
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=History of art =
{{Vital article count|51}}
==Pre-modern art ==
{{Vital article count|16}}
- {{Icon|C}} Academic art
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Ancient Greek art
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Baroque
- {{Icon|Start}} Classicism
- {{Icon|B}} Dutch Golden Age painting
- {{Icon|C}} Empire style
- {{Icon|C}} Gothic art
- {{Icon|B}} Hellenistic art
- {{Icon|C}} Mannerism
- {{Icon|C}} Prehistoric art
- {{Icon|C}} Cave painting
- {{Icon|B}} Rock art
- {{Icon|C}} Renaissance art
- {{Icon|B}} Rococo
- {{Icon|C}} Roman art
- {{Icon|C}} Romanesque art
==Modern art ==
{{Vital article count|21}}
- {{Icon|B}} Modern art
- {{Icon|C}} Abstract art (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Abstract expressionism
- {{Icon|B}} Art Deco
- {{Icon|C}} Art Nouveau
- {{Icon|B}} Arts and Crafts movement
- {{Icon|C}} Avant-garde
- {{Icon|B}} Cubism
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Dada
- {{Icon|C}} Expressionism
- {{Icon|B}} Futurism
- {{Icon|C}} Impressionism
- {{Icon|B}} Modernism (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Neoclassicism
- {{Icon|C}} Post-Impressionism
- {{Icon|C}} Postmodernism
- {{Icon|B}} Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- {{Icon|C}} Realism (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Romanticism (Level 3)
- {{Icon|B}} Surrealism
- {{Icon|C}} Symbolism
==Contemporary art ==
{{Vital article count|6}}
- {{Icon|C}} Contemporary art
- {{Icon|C}} Conceptual art
- {{Icon|C}} Land art
- {{Icon|C}} Minimalism
- {{Icon|C}} Outsider art
- {{Icon|C}} Pop art
==Non-Western art traditions ==
{{Vital article count|8}}
- {{Icon|C}} African art
- {{Icon|C}} Chinese art
- {{Icon|C}} Indian art
- {{Icon|C}} Islamic art
- {{Icon|C}} Japanese art
- {{Icon|FA}} Ukiyo-e
- {{Icon|B}} Persian art
- {{Icon|C}} Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas
=Concepts and forms =
{{Vital article count|40}}
- {{Icon|B}} Visual arts (Level 2)
- {{Icon|B}} Art criticism
- {{Icon|C}} Calligraphy
- {{Icon|C}} Ceramic art
- {{Icon|B}} Collage
- {{Icon|GA}} Comics (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Comic book
- {{Icon|B}} Manga
- {{Icon|B}} Decorative arts
- {{Icon|C}} Drawing (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Fashion (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Design (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Graphic design
- {{Icon|C}} Typography
- {{Icon|C}} Interior design
- {{Icon|C}} Industrial design
- {{Icon|C}} Web design
- {{Icon|C}} Digital art
- {{Icon|B}} Computer graphics
- {{Icon|C}} Folk art
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Graffiti
- {{Icon|C}} Handicraft
- {{Icon|C}} Illustration
- {{Icon|C}} Mosaic
- {{Icon|C}} Mural
- {{Icon|C}} Optical illusion
- {{Icon|C}} Origami
- {{Icon|C}} Painting (Level 3)
- {{Icon|B}} Landscape painting
- {{Icon|C}} Oil painting
- {{Icon|C}} Watercolor painting
- {{Icon|C}} Perspective (graphical)
- {{Icon|Start}} Portrait
- {{Icon|C}} Printmaking
- {{Icon|C}} Engraving
- {{Icon|C}} Religious art
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Sculpture (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Taxidermy
- {{Icon|C}} Textile arts
- {{Icon|C}} Wood carving
=Specific works =
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==Painting ==
{{Vital article count|17}}
- {{Icon|B}} A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
- {{Icon|C}} Along the River During the Qingming Festival
- {{Icon|B}} Arnolfini Portrait
- {{Icon|B}} The Birth of Venus
- {{Icon|GA}} {{Icon|FFA}} Campbell's Soup Cans
- {{Icon|B}} Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
- {{Icon|FA}} The Garden of Earthly Delights
- {{Icon|B}} Guernica
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} The Last Supper
- {{Icon|FA}} Las Meninas
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Mona Lisa
- {{Icon|C}} The Night Watch
- {{Icon|C}} The Persistence of Memory
- {{Icon|B}} The Scream
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Sistine Chapel
- {{Icon|B}} The Starry Night
- {{Icon|C}} Water Lilies
==Sculpture ==
{{Vital article count|8}}
- {{Icon|B}} David
- {{Icon|B}} Fountain
- {{Icon|FA}} Olmec colossal heads
- {{Icon|C}} Pietà
- {{Icon|B}} Terracotta Army
- {{Icon|B}} The Thinker
- {{Icon|GA}} Venus de Milo
- {{Icon|Start}} Venus of Willendorf
==Other media ==
{{Vital article count|3}}
- {{Icon|B}} Bayeux Tapestry
- {{Icon|FA}} Book of Kells
- {{Icon|GA}} The Great Wave off Kanagawa
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Film and television
{{Vital article count|66}}
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=Filmmaking: General=
{{Vital article count|9}}
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Film (Level 3)
- {{Icon|C}} Animation (Level 3)
- {{Icon|B}} Anime
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Silent film
- {{Icon|C}} Filmmaking
- {{Icon|C}} Cinematography
- {{Icon|C}} Special effect
- {{Icon|C}} Studio system
- {{Icon|C}} Television show
=Cinema by country =
{{Vital article count|7}}
- {{Icon|C}} Cinema of the United States
- {{Icon|C}} Cinema of France
- {{Icon|C}} Cinema of India
- {{Icon|C}} Cinema of Japan
- {{Icon|B}} Cinema of China
- {{Icon|C}} Cinema of the Soviet Union
- {{Icon|C}} Cinema of Nigeria
=Film and television festival and awards =
{{Vital article count|4}}
- {{Icon|C}} Film festival
- {{Icon|C}} Cannes Film Festival
- {{Icon|B}} Academy Awards
- {{Icon|C}} Emmy Awards
=Television genres=
{{Vital article count|6}}
- {{Icon|C}} Documentary film
- {{Icon|C}} Game show
- {{Icon|B}} Reality television
- {{Icon|C}} Sitcom
- {{Icon|C}} Soap opera
- {{Icon|Start}} Talk show
=Specific films =
{{Vital article count|34}}
== Animation ==
{{Vital article count|3}}
- {{Icon|C}} Looney Tunes
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- {{Icon|GA}} Toy Story
== Art film ==
{{Vital article count|1}}
- {{Icon|C}} Mirror
== Comedy ==
{{Vital article count|2}}
- {{Icon|GA}} City Lights
- {{Icon|B}} Dr. Strangelove
== Documentary ==
{{Vital article count|1}}
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Triumph of the Will
== Drama film ==
{{Vital article count|17}}
- {{Icon|C}} 8½
- {{Icon|C}} Bicycle Thieves
- {{Icon|C}} Breathless
- {{Icon|C}} Children of Paradise
- {{Icon|GA}} Citizen Kane
- {{Icon|GA}} The Godfather
- {{Icon|C}} La Dolce Vita
- {{Icon|GA}} The Rules of the Game
- {{Icon|B}} Tokyo Story
=== Epic/Historical ===
{{Vital article count|6}}
- {{Icon|B}} The Apu Trilogy
- {{Icon|C}} Battleship Potemkin
- {{Icon|GA}} The Birth of a Nation
- {{Icon|C}} Lawrence of Arabia
- {{Icon|C}} Seven Samurai
- {{Icon|B}} The Seventh Seal
=== Horror/Thriller ===
== Musical ==
{{Vital article count|3}}
- {{Icon|B}} The Jazz Singer
- {{Icon|C}} Singin' in the Rain
- {{Icon|GA}} The Sound of Music
== Romance film ==
{{Vital article count|2}}
- {{Icon|FA}} Casablanca
- {{Icon|GA}} Gone With the Wind
== Science fiction/Fantasy ==
{{Vital article count|4}}
- {{Icon|GA}} 2001: A Space Odyssey
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Metropolis
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Star Wars
- {{Icon|C}} The Wizard of Oz
== Western ==
{{Vital article count|1}}
- {{Icon|C}} Stagecoach
= Specific television shows =
{{Vital article count|6}}
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Doctor Who
- {{Icon|GA}} {{Icon|FFA}} Eurovision Song Contest
- {{Icon|C}} Meet the Press
- {{Icon|FA}} Sesame Street
- {{Icon|FA}} The Simpsons
- {{Icon|GA}} {{Icon|FFA}} Star Trek
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{{anchor|Fictional characters}}Fictional and legendary characters
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:For mythological and Biblical characters, see: Philosophy and religion: Mythology.
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=Western folklore =
{{Vital article count|5}}
- {{Icon|FA}} King Arthur
- {{Icon|B}} Baba Yaga
- {{Icon|C}} Faust
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Robin Hood
- {{Icon|C}} Santa Claus
=Eastern folklore =
=Literature and drama =
{{Vital article count|5}}
- {{Icon|GA}} James Bond
- {{Icon|B}} Sherlock Holmes
- {{Icon|B}} Peter Pan
- {{Icon|C}} Tarzan
- {{Icon|C}} Winnie-the-Pooh
=Film, television, and games =
{{Vital article count|3}}
- {{Icon|B}} Mickey Mouse
- {{Icon|C}} Donald Duck
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Mario
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=Superheroes =
{{Vital article count|4}}
- {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Superman
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Batman
- {{Icon|B}} Wonder Woman
- {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Spider-Man
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