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Vital articles is a list of subjects for which Wikipedia should have corresponding high-quality articles. It serves as a centralized watchlist to track the status of Wikipedia's most essential articles. This is one of eleven Level 4 sub-lists of ten thousand articles and is currently under construction.

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This list is tailored to the English-language Wikipedia. There is also a list of ten thousand articles considered vital to Wikipedias of all languages.

For more information on this list and the process for adding articles, please see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.

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Total 697 articles.

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{{Icon|FA}} FA32
{{Icon|GA}} GA34
{{Icon|B}} B246
{{Icon|C}} C355
{{Icon|FFA}} FFA30
{{Icon|DGA}} DGA44
{{Icon|Start}} Start30

=Arts =

{{Vital article count|697}}

Arts: General

{{Vital article count|3}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} The arts (Level 1)
  2. {{Icon|B}} Art (Level 3)
  3. {{Icon|Start}} Artist

Architecture

{{Vital article count|60}}

:For construction technology, see: Technology: Infrastructure.

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=Architecture: General=

{{Vital article count|6}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Architecture (Level 2)
  2. {{Icon|C}} Sacral architecture
  3. {{Icon|C}} Architectural drawing
  4. {{Icon|C}} Architectural theory
  5. {{Icon|Start}} Proportion
  6. {{Icon|C}} Landscape architecture

=Styles =

{{Vital article count|18}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Ancient Egyptian architecture
  2. {{Icon|B}} Ancient Greek architecture
  3. {{Icon|B}} Ancient Roman architecture
  4. {{Icon|C}} Baroque architecture
  5. {{Icon|C}} Byzantine architecture
  6. {{Icon|B}} Chinese architecture
  7. {{Icon|C}} Gothic architecture
  8. {{Icon|B}} Architecture of India
  9. {{Icon|C}} Iranian architecture
  10. {{Icon|C}} Islamic architecture
  11. {{Icon|C}} Megalith
  12. {{Icon|B}} Mesoamerican architecture
  13. {{Icon|C}} Architecture of Mesopotamia
  14. {{Icon|C}} Modern architecture
  15. {{Icon|C}} Neoclassical architecture
  16. {{Icon|C}} Postmodern architecture
  17. {{Icon|B}} Renaissance architecture
  18. {{Icon|B}} Romanesque architecture

=Specific structures =

{{Vital article count|36}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Acropolis of Athens
  2. {{Icon|B}} Alhambra
  3. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Angkor Wat
  4. {{Icon|B}} Arc de Triomphe
  5. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Borobudur
  6. {{Icon|B}} Burj Khalifa
  7. {{Icon|B}} Colosseum
  8. {{Icon|C}} Eiffel Tower
  9. {{Icon|GA}} Empire State Building
  10. {{Icon|GA}} Fallingwater
  11. {{Icon|C}} Florence Cathedral
  12. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Forbidden City
  13. {{Icon|B}} Great Sphinx of Giza
  14. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Golden Temple
  15. {{Icon|B}} Great Wall of China (Level 3)
  16. {{Icon|B}} Hagia Sophia
  17. {{Icon|B}} Kaaba
  18. {{Icon|C}} Kinkaku-ji
  19. {{Icon|C}} Kremlin
  20. {{Icon|B}} Leaning Tower of Pisa
  21. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Machu Picchu
  22. {{Icon|B}} Notre-Dame de Paris
  23. {{Icon|B}} Palace of Versailles
  24. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Palace of Westminster
  25. {{Icon|B}} Pantheon, Rome
  26. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Parthenon
  27. {{Icon|B}} Sagrada Família
  28. {{Icon|C}} Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
  29. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Great Pyramid of Giza (Level 3)
  30. {{Icon|B}} St. Peter's Basilica
  31. {{Icon|FA}} Statue of Liberty
  32. {{Icon|B}} Stonehenge
  33. {{Icon|B}} Sydney Opera House
  34. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Taj Mahal
  35. {{Icon|B}} Temple Mount
  36. {{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}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} Museum (Level 3)
  2. {{Icon|C}} Movie theater

=Americas =

{{Vital article count|5}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} American Museum of Natural History
  2. {{Icon|B}} Metropolitan Museum of Art
  3. {{Icon|B}} Museum of Modern Art
  4. {{Icon|C}} National Gallery of Art
  5. {{Icon|C}} Smithsonian Institution

=Asia =

{{Vital article count|2}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} National Museum of China
  2. {{Icon|C}} National Palace Museum

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=Europe =

{{Vital article count|11}}

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

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Literature

{{Vital article count|222}}

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=Basics =

{{Vital article count|40}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} Literature (Level 2)
  2. {{Icon|B}} Character
  3. {{Icon|C}} Superhero
  4. {{Icon|Start}} Literary criticism
  5. {{Icon|B}} Narrative
  6. {{Icon|Start}} Prose
  7. {{Icon|C}} Saga
  8. {{Icon|C}} Fiction (Level 3)
  9. {{Icon|C}} Children's literature
  10. {{Icon|C}} Detective fiction
  11. {{Icon|C}} Fable
  12. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Fairy tale
  13. {{Icon|C}} Fantasy
  14. {{Icon|Start}} Fictional universe
  15. {{Icon|B}} Horror fiction
  16. {{Icon|C}} Legend
  17. {{Icon|C}} Novel (Level 3)
  18. {{Icon|C}} Romance novel
  19. {{Icon|C}} Satire
  20. {{Icon|C}} Black comedy
  21. {{Icon|B}} Science fiction
  22. {{Icon|B}} Time travel
  23. {{Icon|C}} Short story (Level 3)
  24. {{Icon|C}} Utopia
  25. {{Icon|C}} Non-fiction (Level 3)
  26. {{Icon|C}} Biography
  27. {{Icon|B}} Diary
  28. {{Icon|C}} Dictionary
  29. {{Icon|C}} Encyclopedia
  30. {{Icon|C}} Essay
  31. {{Icon|C}} Thesaurus
  32. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Poetry (Level 3)
  33. {{Icon|C}} Epic poetry
  34. {{Icon|C}} Ghazal
  35. {{Icon|C}} Haiku
  36. {{Icon|Start}} Ode
  37. {{Icon|Start}} Prose poetry
  38. {{Icon|C}} Rhyme
  39. {{Icon|C}} Sonnet
  40. {{Icon|C}} Writer

=Literatures by language and area =

{{Vital article count|18}}

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

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=Specific works of fiction =

{{Vital article count|93}}

== Fiction of antiquity ==

{{Vital article count|17}}

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

== Fiction of early printed book era ==

{{Vital article count|17}}

  1. {{Icon|FA}} Candide
  2. {{Icon|B}} Cinderella
  3. {{Icon|B}} Don Quixote
  4. {{Icon|B}} Dream of the Red Chamber
  5. {{Icon|C}} Goethe's Faust
  6. {{Icon|C}} Gulliver's Travels
  7. {{Icon|FA}} Hamlet
  8. {{Icon|B}} King Lear
  9. {{Icon|C}} Macbeth
  10. {{Icon|B}} A Midsummer Night's Dream
  11. {{Icon|B}} Othello
  12. {{Icon|C}} La Princesse de Clèves
  13. {{Icon|C}} Robinson Crusoe
  14. {{Icon|FA}} Romeo and Juliet
  15. {{Icon|C}} Tartuffe
  16. {{Icon|GA}} The Tempest
  17. {{Icon|C}} Utopia (More book)

== Fiction of modern era ==

{{Vital article count|54}}

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

== Comics ==

{{Vital article count|5}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} The Adventures of Tintin
  2. {{Icon|B}} Asterix
  3. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Dragon Ball
  4. {{Icon|GA}} One Piece
  5. {{Icon|B}} Peanuts

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=Specific works of nonfiction =

{{Vital article count|47}}

== Nonfiction of antiquity ==

{{Vital article count|23}}

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

== Nonfiction of early printed book era ==

{{Vital article count|13}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Critique of Pure Reason
  2. {{Icon|C}} De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
  3. {{Icon|C}} A Dictionary of the English Language
  4. {{Icon|C}} Discourse on the Method
  5. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Encyclopædia Britannica
  6. {{Icon|C}} Encyclopédie
  7. {{Icon|C}} Gutenberg Bible
  8. {{Icon|C}} The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  9. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} King James Version
  10. {{Icon|C}} Leviathan
  11. {{Icon|FA}} Ninety-five Theses
  12. {{Icon|B}} Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
  13. {{Icon|C}} The Prince

== Nonfiction of modern era ==

{{Vital article count|11}}

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

=Specific works of poetry =

{{Vital article count|24}}

== Poetic works of antiquity ==

{{Vital article count|14}}

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

== Poetic works of early printed book era ==

{{Vital article count|5}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} Shakespeare's sonnets
  2. {{Icon|C}} Paradise Lost
  3. {{Icon|C}} Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
  4. {{Icon|C}} Oku no Hosomichi
  5. {{Icon|C}} Songs of Innocence and of Experience

== Poetic works of modern era ==

{{Vital article count|5}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Duino Elegies
  2. {{Icon|C}} Leaves of Grass
  3. {{Icon|FA}} The Raven
  4. {{Icon|C}} The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  5. {{Icon|GA}} The Waste Land

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Music

{{Vital article count|144}}

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=Basics =

{{Vital article count|17}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} Music (Level 2)
  2. {{Icon|B}} Album
  3. {{Icon|C}} Choir
  4. {{Icon|C}} Concert
  5. {{Icon|C}} Counterpoint
  6. {{Icon|C}} Harmony
  7. {{Icon|C}} Chord
  8. {{Icon|Start}} Melody
  9. {{Icon|C}} Musicology
  10. {{Icon|B}} Music theory
  11. {{Icon|B}} Music video
  12. {{Icon|C}} Musical notation
  13. {{Icon|C}} Orchestra (Level 3)
  14. {{Icon|C}} Rhythm (Level 3)
  15. {{Icon|C}} Scale (music)
  16. {{Icon|C}} Singing (Level 3)
  17. {{Icon|Start}} Song

=Musical instruments =

{{Vital article count|43}}

  1. {{Icon|GA}} Musical instrument (Level 3)
  2. {{Icon|C}} Electronic musical instrument
  3. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Synthesizer
  4. {{Icon|Start}} Keyboard instrument
  5. {{Icon|B}} Accordion
  6. {{Icon|B}} Harpsichord
  7. {{Icon|C}} Piano
  8. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Pipe organ
  9. {{Icon|C}} Percussion instrument
  10. {{Icon|C}} Bell
  11. {{Icon|C}} Cymbal
  12. {{Icon|B}} Djembe
  13. {{Icon|C}} Drum
  14. {{Icon|C}} Xylophone
  15. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} String instrument
  16. {{Icon|C}} Bass guitar
  17. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Cello
  18. {{Icon|C}} Double bass
  19. {{Icon|C}} Electric guitar
  20. {{Icon|C}} Guitar
  21. {{Icon|C}} Harp
  22. {{Icon|C}} Lute
  23. {{Icon|C}} Lyre
  24. {{Icon|C}} Mandolin
  25. {{Icon|C}} Viola
  26. {{Icon|B}} Violin
  27. {{Icon|Start}} Wind instrument
  28. {{Icon|C}} Bagpipes
  29. {{Icon|C}} Brass instrument
  30. {{Icon|B}} Horn
  31. {{Icon|C}} Trombone
  32. {{Icon|C}} Trumpet
  33. {{Icon|C}} Tuba
  34. {{Icon|C}} Harmonica
  35. {{Icon|B}} Woodwind instrument
  36. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Bassoon
  37. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Clarinet
  38. {{Icon|B}} Flute
  39. {{Icon|Start}} Pan flute
  40. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Recorder
  41. {{Icon|B}} Western concert flute
  42. {{Icon|C}} Oboe
  43. {{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}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Music genre
  2. {{Icon|B}} Ballad
  3. {{Icon|C}} Christmas carol
  4. {{Icon|B}} Hymn
  5. {{Icon|C}} Lullaby
  6. {{Icon|C}} National anthem
  7. {{Icon|B}} Protest song

==Western classical music ==

{{Vital article count|16}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} Classical music (Level 3)
  2. {{Icon|C}} Aria
  3. {{Icon|B}} Chamber music
  4. {{Icon|B}} Concerto
  5. {{Icon|B}} Fugue
  6. {{Icon|B}} Opera (Level 3)
  7. {{Icon|C}} Sonata
  8. {{Icon|C}} Symphony
  9. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Medieval music
  10. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Gregorian chant
  11. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Renaissance music
  12. {{Icon|C}} Baroque music
  13. {{Icon|Start}} Classical period
  14. {{Icon|C}} Romantic music
  15. {{Icon|C}} 20th-century classical music
  16. {{Icon|C}} Contemporary classical music

==Non-Western music ==

{{Vital article count|5}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Arabic music
  2. {{Icon|B}} Music of Africa
  3. {{Icon|B}} Gamelan
  4. {{Icon|B}} Indian classical music
  5. {{Icon|C}} Music of China

==Popular music ==

{{Vital article count|23}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Blues
  2. {{Icon|B}} Country music
  3. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Disco
  4. {{Icon|B}} Electronic music
  5. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Folk music (Level 3)
  6. {{Icon|B}} Funk
  7. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Hip-hop
  8. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Rapping
  9. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Jazz (Level 3)
  10. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Bossa nova
  11. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Ragtime
  12. {{Icon|B}} Pop music (Level 3)
  13. {{Icon|B}} J-pop
  14. {{Icon|B}} K-pop
  15. {{Icon|B}} Reggae
  16. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Rhythm and blues
  17. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Soul music
  18. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Rock music (Level 3)
  19. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Heavy metal music
  20. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Punk rock
  21. {{Icon|B}} Rock and roll
  22. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Salsa music
  23. {{Icon|B}} Samba

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=Specific musical works =

{{Vital article count|33}}

==Baroque ==

{{Vital article count|5}}

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

==Classical ==

{{Vital article count|7}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Nocturnes (Chopin)
  2. {{Icon|Start}} Piano sonatas (Beethoven)
  3. {{Icon|B}} Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)
  4. {{Icon|B}} Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)
  5. {{Icon|C}} Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)
  6. {{Icon|B}} Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
  7. {{Icon|C}} Symphony No. 41 (Mozart)

==Opera ==

{{Vital article count|8}}

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

==Ballet ==

{{Vital article count|3}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} The Nutcracker
  2. {{Icon|FA}} The Rite of Spring
  3. {{Icon|C}} Swan Lake

==Musicals ==

{{Vital article count|2}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} The Phantom of the Opera
  2. {{Icon|B}} West Side Story

==Modern ==

{{Vital article count|8}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Bohemian Rhapsody
  2. {{Icon|GA}} Gangnam Style
  3. {{Icon|C}} Johnny B. Goode
  4. {{Icon|GA}} Kind of Blue
  5. {{Icon|FA}} Like a Rolling Stone
  6. {{Icon|B}} Rhapsody in Blue
  7. {{Icon|FA}} Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
  8. {{Icon|FA}} Thriller (Michael Jackson album)

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Performing arts

{{Vital article count|45}}

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=Basic concepts =

{{Vital article count|5}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Performing arts (Level 2)
  2. {{Icon|C}} Actor
  3. {{Icon|C}} Audience
  4. {{Icon|C}} Costume
  5. {{Icon|C}} Stage

=Forms =

{{Vital article count|40}}

  1. {{Icon|Start}} Acrobatics
  2. {{Icon|C}} Burlesque
  3. {{Icon|B}} Circus
  4. {{Icon|B}} Clown
  5. {{Icon|B}} Magic (illusion)
  6. {{Icon|C}} Mime artist
  7. {{Icon|C}} Performance art
  8. {{Icon|C}} Puppetry

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==Dance ==

{{Vital article count|14}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Dance (Level 3)
  2. {{Icon|Start}} Choreography
  3. {{Icon|B}} Ballet
  4. {{Icon|C}} Ballroom dance
  5. {{Icon|C}} Bolero
  6. {{Icon|C}} Tango
  7. {{Icon|C}} Waltz
  8. {{Icon|B}} Belly dance
  9. {{Icon|B}} Bharatanatyam
  10. {{Icon|B}} Flamenco
  11. {{Icon|Start}} Folk dance
  12. {{Icon|GA}} Hip-hop dance
  13. {{Icon|Start}} Jazz dance
  14. {{Icon|C}} Modern dance

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==Theatre ==

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  1. {{Icon|C}} Theatre (Level 3)
  2. {{Icon|C}} Acting
  3. {{Icon|Start}} Stagecraft
  4. {{Icon|C}} Comedy
  5. {{Icon|C}} Commedia dell'arte
  6. {{Icon|C}} Improvisational theatre
  7. {{Icon|B}} Joke
  8. {{Icon|C}} Parody
  9. {{Icon|C}} Stand-up comedy
  10. {{Icon|C}} Drama
  11. {{Icon|C}} Tragedy
  12. {{Icon|B}} Broadway theatre
  13. {{Icon|B}} West End theatre
  14. {{Icon|B}} Kabuki
  15. {{Icon|B}} Musical theatre
  16. {{Icon|GA}} Noh
  17. {{Icon|FA}} Peking opera
  18. {{Icon|C}} Theatre of ancient Greece

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Visual arts

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:For photographic technology, see: Technology: Optical technology.

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=History of art =

{{Vital article count|51}}

==Pre-modern art ==

{{Vital article count|16}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Academic art
  2. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Ancient Greek art
  3. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Baroque
  4. {{Icon|Start}} Classicism
  5. {{Icon|B}} Dutch Golden Age painting
  6. {{Icon|C}} Empire style
  7. {{Icon|C}} Gothic art
  8. {{Icon|B}} Hellenistic art
  9. {{Icon|C}} Mannerism
  10. {{Icon|C}} Prehistoric art
  11. {{Icon|C}} Cave painting
  12. {{Icon|B}} Rock art
  13. {{Icon|C}} Renaissance art
  14. {{Icon|B}} Rococo
  15. {{Icon|C}} Roman art
  16. {{Icon|C}} Romanesque art

==Modern art ==

{{Vital article count|21}}

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

==Contemporary art ==

{{Vital article count|6}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Contemporary art
  2. {{Icon|C}} Conceptual art
  3. {{Icon|C}} Land art
  4. {{Icon|C}} Minimalism
  5. {{Icon|C}} Outsider art
  6. {{Icon|C}} Pop art

==Non-Western art traditions ==

{{Vital article count|8}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} African art
  2. {{Icon|C}} Chinese art
  3. {{Icon|C}} Indian art
  4. {{Icon|C}} Islamic art
  5. {{Icon|C}} Japanese art
  6. {{Icon|FA}} Ukiyo-e
  7. {{Icon|B}} Persian art
  8. {{Icon|C}} Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

=Concepts and forms =

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  1. {{Icon|B}} Visual arts (Level 2)
  2. {{Icon|B}} Art criticism
  3. {{Icon|C}} Calligraphy
  4. {{Icon|C}} Ceramic art
  5. {{Icon|B}} Collage
  6. {{Icon|GA}} Comics (Level 3)
  7. {{Icon|C}} Comic book
  8. {{Icon|B}} Manga
  9. {{Icon|B}} Decorative arts
  10. {{Icon|C}} Drawing (Level 3)
  11. {{Icon|C}} Fashion (Level 3)
  12. {{Icon|C}} Design (Level 3)
  13. {{Icon|C}} Graphic design
  14. {{Icon|C}} Typography
  15. {{Icon|C}} Interior design
  16. {{Icon|C}} Industrial design
  17. {{Icon|C}} Web design
  18. {{Icon|C}} Digital art
  19. {{Icon|B}} Computer graphics
  20. {{Icon|C}} Folk art
  21. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Graffiti
  22. {{Icon|C}} Handicraft
  23. {{Icon|C}} Illustration
  24. {{Icon|C}} Mosaic
  25. {{Icon|C}} Mural
  26. {{Icon|C}} Optical illusion
  27. {{Icon|C}} Origami
  28. {{Icon|C}} Painting (Level 3)
  29. {{Icon|B}} Landscape painting
  30. {{Icon|C}} Oil painting
  31. {{Icon|C}} Watercolor painting
  32. {{Icon|C}} Perspective (graphical)
  33. {{Icon|Start}} Portrait
  34. {{Icon|C}} Printmaking
  35. {{Icon|C}} Engraving
  36. {{Icon|C}} Religious art
  37. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Sculpture (Level 3)
  38. {{Icon|C}} Taxidermy
  39. {{Icon|C}} Textile arts
  40. {{Icon|C}} Wood carving

=Specific works =

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==Painting ==

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  1. {{Icon|B}} A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
  2. {{Icon|C}} Along the River During the Qingming Festival
  3. {{Icon|B}} Arnolfini Portrait
  4. {{Icon|B}} The Birth of Venus
  5. {{Icon|GA}} {{Icon|FFA}} Campbell's Soup Cans
  6. {{Icon|B}} Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
  7. {{Icon|FA}} The Garden of Earthly Delights
  8. {{Icon|B}} Guernica
  9. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} The Last Supper
  10. {{Icon|FA}} Las Meninas
  11. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Mona Lisa
  12. {{Icon|C}} The Night Watch
  13. {{Icon|C}} The Persistence of Memory
  14. {{Icon|B}} The Scream
  15. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Sistine Chapel
  16. {{Icon|B}} The Starry Night
  17. {{Icon|C}} Water Lilies

==Sculpture ==

{{Vital article count|8}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} David
  2. {{Icon|B}} Fountain
  3. {{Icon|FA}} Olmec colossal heads
  4. {{Icon|C}} Pietà
  5. {{Icon|B}} Terracotta Army
  6. {{Icon|B}} The Thinker
  7. {{Icon|GA}} Venus de Milo
  8. {{Icon|Start}} Venus of Willendorf

==Other media ==

{{Vital article count|3}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} Bayeux Tapestry
  2. {{Icon|FA}} Book of Kells
  3. {{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}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Film (Level 3)
  2. {{Icon|C}} Animation (Level 3)
  3. {{Icon|B}} Anime
  4. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Silent film
  5. {{Icon|C}} Filmmaking
  6. {{Icon|C}} Cinematography
  7. {{Icon|C}} Special effect
  8. {{Icon|C}} Studio system
  9. {{Icon|C}} Television show

=Cinema by country =

{{Vital article count|7}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Cinema of the United States
  2. {{Icon|C}} Cinema of France
  3. {{Icon|C}} Cinema of India
  4. {{Icon|C}} Cinema of Japan
  5. {{Icon|B}} Cinema of China
  6. {{Icon|C}} Cinema of the Soviet Union
  7. {{Icon|C}} Cinema of Nigeria

=Film and television festival and awards =

{{Vital article count|4}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Film festival
  2. {{Icon|C}} Cannes Film Festival
  3. {{Icon|B}} Academy Awards
  4. {{Icon|C}} Emmy Awards

=Television genres=

{{Vital article count|6}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Documentary film
  2. {{Icon|C}} Game show
  3. {{Icon|B}} Reality television
  4. {{Icon|C}} Sitcom
  5. {{Icon|C}} Soap opera
  6. {{Icon|Start}} Talk show

=Specific films =

{{Vital article count|34}}

== Animation ==

{{Vital article count|3}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Looney Tunes
  2. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  3. {{Icon|GA}} Toy Story

== Art film ==

{{Vital article count|1}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Mirror

== Comedy ==

{{Vital article count|2}}

  1. {{Icon|GA}} City Lights
  2. {{Icon|B}} Dr. Strangelove

== Documentary ==

{{Vital article count|1}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Triumph of the Will

== Drama film ==

{{Vital article count|17}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} 8½
  2. {{Icon|C}} Bicycle Thieves
  3. {{Icon|C}} Breathless
  4. {{Icon|C}} Children of Paradise
  5. {{Icon|GA}} Citizen Kane
  6. {{Icon|GA}} The Godfather
  7. {{Icon|C}} La Dolce Vita
  8. {{Icon|GA}} The Rules of the Game
  9. {{Icon|B}} Tokyo Story

=== Epic/Historical ===

{{Vital article count|6}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} The Apu Trilogy
  2. {{Icon|C}} Battleship Potemkin
  3. {{Icon|GA}} The Birth of a Nation
  4. {{Icon|C}} Lawrence of Arabia
  5. {{Icon|C}} Seven Samurai
  6. {{Icon|B}} The Seventh Seal

=== Horror/Thriller ===

{{Vital article count|2}}

  1. {{Icon|GA}} Psycho
  2. {{Icon|B}} Vertigo

== Musical ==

{{Vital article count|3}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} The Jazz Singer
  2. {{Icon|C}} Singin' in the Rain
  3. {{Icon|GA}} The Sound of Music

== Romance film ==

{{Vital article count|2}}

  1. {{Icon|FA}} Casablanca
  2. {{Icon|GA}} Gone With the Wind

== Science fiction/Fantasy ==

{{Vital article count|4}}

  1. {{Icon|GA}} 2001: A Space Odyssey
  2. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Metropolis
  3. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Star Wars
  4. {{Icon|C}} The Wizard of Oz

== Western ==

{{Vital article count|1}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} Stagecoach

= Specific television shows =

{{Vital article count|6}}

  1. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Doctor Who
  2. {{Icon|GA}} {{Icon|FFA}} Eurovision Song Contest
  3. {{Icon|C}} Meet the Press
  4. {{Icon|FA}} Sesame Street
  5. {{Icon|FA}} The Simpsons
  6. {{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}}

  1. {{Icon|FA}} King Arthur
  2. {{Icon|B}} Baba Yaga
  3. {{Icon|C}} Faust
  4. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Robin Hood
  5. {{Icon|C}} Santa Claus

=Eastern folklore =

{{Vital article count|1}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} Hua Mulan

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=Literature and drama =

{{Vital article count|5}}

  1. {{Icon|GA}} James Bond
  2. {{Icon|B}} Sherlock Holmes
  3. {{Icon|B}} Peter Pan
  4. {{Icon|C}} Tarzan
  5. {{Icon|C}} Winnie-the-Pooh

=Film, television, and games =

{{Vital article count|3}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} Mickey Mouse
  2. {{Icon|C}} Donald Duck
  3. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Mario

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=Superheroes =

{{Vital article count|4}}

  1. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Superman
  2. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Batman
  3. {{Icon|B}} Wonder Woman
  4. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Spider-Man

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