classical works
Canon of antiquity
Classical works are artistic, literary, or musical creations considered to have enduring value and lasting influence—the established masterpieces of a tradition.
The term usually refers to works from ancient Greece and Rome or to compositions from the European classical music period: She studied classical works in her humanities course.
More broadly, any field's foundational texts may be called its classical works: the classical works of economic theory.
- symphonyExtended composition for orchestra
- epic poetryExtended narrative in verse
- sculptureShaped three-dimensional art
- marble statueFigure carved from metamorphic rock
- concertoSolo-and-orchestra composition
chamber music · string quartet · tragedy · sonnet · fresco · comedy · epic poem · allegory · fable · myth · requiem · mosaic · landscape painting · manuscript · dialectics · bas-relief · stoicism · portraiture
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- theatreBroadway, acting, theatre, stage, actor
- philosophical writingstreatises, dialogues, discourses, meditations, critiques
- ancient historyancient history, ancient world, ancient empires, Mesopotamia, Babylon
- art museumspaintings, The Louvre, galleries, permanent collection, exhibitions
- literary periodsRenaissance, medieval, Victorian, modern, contemporary
classical workspulp fiction
Sensational cheap literature
ephemera · pop culture · potboilers · kitsch · airport novels
classical worksoutsider art
Untrained makers' visual work
street art · folk art · punk music · found art · zines
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