Great Work (Civ5)

Great works are a new feature introduced in the Civilization V: Brave New World expansion pack as part of the new culture mechanics of the expansion. They represent exceptional achievements of the culture of your civilization, capable of spreading its fame all over the globe. Unlike general Culture, which consists of, say regular theater presentations, novel writing, or the occasional inauguration of a new Monument, etc. Great Works contribute to the 'external' pressure your civilization exerts to the other civilizations, represented by the stat Tourism Tourism.

Types of Great Works

There are three main types of Great Works:

Great Work of Writing (GWW) - a novel, poetry collection, etc., created by a Great Writer.
Great Work of Art (GWA) - a painting, statue, etc., created by a Great Artist.
Great Work of Music (GWM) - a symphony, song, etc., created by a Great Musician.

Artifact

In addition to the works created by Great People, there is a fourth type of culturally important objects - Artifacts. These are remains from the past, interesting objects such as an ancient pottery, metal objects, golden trinkets, etc. They are created by excavating an Archaeological Dig. It is largely identical to a Great Work of Art. For more info on obtaining it, check the Archaeology article.

Great Work Properties

Each Great Work and Artifact belongs to a certain Era and certain Civilization. For Great Works, this depends on which Civilization produced the Great Person that made the work, and when exactly it was created. Here it counts the current Era the Civilization was in when the "Create a Great Work" ability was activated, rather than when the Great Person itself was generated. For Artifacts, it counts which Civilization (or City-State) was involved in the event that generated the historical site, and in what Era the event happened.

These properties are important for the Theming Bonuses of museums and wonders.

Using Great Works

Great Works are used by placing them in appropriate buildings, where they can be accessed by the public. In fact, you can't even create a Great Work if there isn't an appropriate slot somewhere in your empire! Whenever you produce a Great Work or an Artifact, it is automatically placed in the appropriate slot available in the nearest city. You can later change the slot each Work or Artifact takes from the Your Culture screen (see below). Indeed, it is highly recommendable that you get acquainted with that process, since you'll need to shuffle around your Great Works and Artifacts in order to activate Theming Bonuses in the appropriate buildings.

Slots are found in two main types of buildings:

Culture buildings:
- Great Works of Writing:
  - Royal Library - 1 slot (Assyrian unique replacement for Library; also provides extra XP for units trained in the city if the slot is filled)
  - Amphitheater - 1 slot
- Great Works of Art:
  - Cathedral - 1 slot (Only available to cities following a religion with the Cathedrals belief)
  - Museum - 2 slots
- Great Works of Music:
  - Opera House - 1 slot
  - Ceilidh Hall - 1 slot (Celtic unique replacement for Opera House)
  - Broadcast Tower - 1 slot

World and National Wonders. Many of these also have slots for Great Works of a certain type - they're especially useful because most of them have multiple slots and can thus enjoy the special Theming Bonuses. Below is a complete list of those wonders:
- Great Works of Writing:
  - National Epic - 1 slot
  - Heroic Epic - 1 slot
  - Great Library - 2 slots
  - Oxford University - 2 slots
  - Globe Theatre - 2 slots
- Great Works of Art:
  - Palace - 1 slot
  - Parthenon - 1 slot (Already includes a Great Work of Art)
  - Sistine Chapel - 2 slots
  - Uffizi - 3 slots (Must have adopted Aesthetics)
  - Hermitage - 3 slots
  - Louvre - 4 slots (Must have adopted Exploration)
- Great Works of Music:
  - Broadway - 3 slots
  - Sydney Opera House - 2 slots

Theming Bonus

All buildings that contain more than one slot for Great Work are able to generate a special Theming Bonus. To receive this bonus, you need to fill all the slots with Great Works of the appropriate properties, according to the special conditions of the relevant building. Mouse over the Bonus number next to the slots in the Tourism Overview screen to find out the exact requirements for the Theme for the building. Sometimes they could be "Different Eras and Different Civilizations", or otherwise "The Same Era and the Same Civilization", etc. Bonuses can be partial, or complete, depending on whether you've completed all or only some of the requirements.

Theming Bonus provides extra Culture Culture and Tourism Tourism for the City and your Empire.

Moving and Trading Great Works

Great Works can be looted from enemy cities, and they can be moved from building to building and city to city within your empire. This is done by opening the Tourism Overview screen, clicking on the "Your Culture" tab, selecting a Great Work in its slot, then clicking on an empty slot. The Work will then move to the new slot.

You can also Swap Works with other civilizations you're not at war with. This is also easy - just open the Swap Great Works tab in the Tourism Overview screen, choose one of your Works in the swapping slot above, then the Work you want to swap for from the list below. Note that you can only swap Works of the same type (e.g. a Great Work of Writing for Great Work of Writing). You don't even need to negotiate with the other civilization, the process is automatic.

Note that civilizations can choose which Great Works they want to swap - so you won't see all Great Works they have available, just the ones they chose to offer. Similarly, you can leave a Great Work in the swapping slot, and the other civilizations will be able to exchange it for another of their own. So, if you have some Great Works you have no use for, and you need some specific Era or Civilization Works to complete a Theming Bonus, but there is no right Works offered for swapping right now, leave some of yours in the slot and wait - you may get lucky eventually!

List of Great People and Their Respective Works

This list is incomplete. Please help expanding this list by adding more!
Links to Wikipedia or other appropriate sources are provided after the item.

Great Writers

Aesop - Fables (More info)
Vittoro Alfieri - Saul
Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
Ludovico Ariosto - Orlando Furioso
Aristophanes - Lysistrata
Roberto Arlt - Los Siete Locos
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Honoré de Balzac - Le Père Goriot
Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du Mal
L. Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube - Girart de Vienne
Beaumarchais - Mariage de Figaro
Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Bhasa - Urubhanga
Albert Camus - L' Etranger
Cao Xueqin - Hong Lou Meng
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Qixote
Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury Tales
Anton Chekhov - The Seagull
James Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans
Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage
Emperor Daigo - Kokin Wakashu
Ruben Dario - Azul
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Emily Dickinson - Poems
Diderot - L'Encyclopédie
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of the Four
Alexandre Dumas - Les Trois Mousquetaires
Erasme - L'éloge à la Folie
Edward FitzGerald - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
De La Fontaine - Fables
Nikolai Gogol - Revizor
Maxim Gorky - Na Dne
Jose Hernandez - Martin Fierro
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice-Told Tales
Homer - Odyssey
Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
Washington Irving - The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
Jorge Isaacs - Maria
Kalidasa - Abhij
Rudyard Kipling - Barrack Room Ballads
Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng - Jin Ping Mei
D. H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterly's Lover
Lucian - A True Story
Sir Thomas Malory - Le Morte d'Arthur
Marivaux - L'Ile aux esclaves
Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Molière - Dom Juan
Monzaemon Chikamatsu - Shinju Ten no Amijima
Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale of Genji
Natsume Soseki - I am a Cat
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Francesco Petrarca - Il Canzoniere
Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven
Marcel Proust - A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
Qu Yuan - Chu Ci
Francois Rabelais - La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi - Masnavi
Jean-Paul Sartre - Les Mots
Friedrich Schiller - Die Rauber
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Shi Naian - Shuihu Zhuan (More info)
Edmund Spencer - The Faerie Queene
William Shakespeare - Macbeth
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Henry David Thoreau - Walden
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ueda Akinari - Ugetsu Monogatari
Valmiki - Ramayana
Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Virgil - Aeneid
Voltaire - Candide
Vyasa - Mahabharata
H. G. Wells - The Time Machine
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
Yoshida Kenko - Tsurezuregusa
Émile Zola - Germinal

Great Artists

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends
Giuseppe Arcimboldo - Vertumnus
Kamaleddin Behzad - Yusef and Zulaikha
Giovanni Bellini - Naked Young Woman in front of the Mirror
Giotto di Bondone - Adoration of the Magi
Sandro Boticelli - The Birth of Venus
Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Hunters in the Snow
Pieter Brueghel the Younger - Tower of Babel
Michelangelo Buonarroti - God Creating Adam
Gustave Caillebotte - Paris Street; Rainy Day
Mary Cassatt - The Child's Bath
Paul Cézanne - The Card Players
Jean Clouet - Portrait of Francois I
Jacques-Louis David - The Death of Marat
Eugène Delacroix - Liberty Leading the People
Edgar Degas - L'Absinthe
Asher Brown Durand - Kindred Spirits
Jan van Eyck - Portrait of a Man in a Turban
Jean-Honoré Fragonard - The Swing
Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog
Paul Gauguin - Upaupa Schneklud
El Greco - View of Toledo
Vincent van Gogh - Starry Night
George Gower - The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I of England
Francisco de Goya - The Third of May 1808
August Haake - Field with Sheafs
Martin Johnson Heade - Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth
George P. A. Healy - The Peacemakers
Hiranand - Da'ud Receives a Robe of Honor from Mun'im Khan
Hans Holbein the Younger - Henry VIII
Winslow Homer - Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Katsushika Hokusai - The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Jiao Bingzhen - Leaf 2 (Painting of Ladies)
Gustav Klimt - Der Kuss
Edmund Leighton - The Allocade
Edouard Manet - A Bar at the Folie-Bergere
Bernardo Martorell - Saint George Killing the Dragon
Antonello da Messina - Saint Jerome in his Study
Amadeo Modigliani - Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz
Claude Monet - Water Lilies
Samuel F. B. Morse - Gallery of the Louvre
Sultan Muhammad - Muhammad's Ascent into Heaven
Edvard Munch - The Scream
Pablo Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Frans Post - Landscape with an Ant Bear
Qiu Ying - Spring Morning in the Han Palace (View)
Raja Ravi Varma - Skanda Seat on a Peacock
Frederick Remington - A Dash for the Timber
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Luncheon of the Boating Party
Rembrandt van Rijn - The Nightwatch
Peter Paul Rubens - Rubens and Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower
Raffaello Sanzio - Portrait of Bindo Altoviti
Georges Seurat - A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Bartholomeus Spranger - Self-Portrait
Gilbert Stuart - George Washington (Landsdowne portrait)
Tintoretto - Last Supper
Titian - Equestrian Portrait of Charles V
Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec - Ball at the Moulin Rouge
Paolo Ucello - Saint George and the Dragon
Leonardo da Vinci - Mona Lisa (More info)
Jan Vermeer - Girl with a Pearl Earring
Wang Ximeng - A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains
James Abbott McNeill Whistler - Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Grant Wood - American Gothic
Yaganawa Shigenobu - Hataori
Zhang Zeduan - Along the River During Qingming Festival (More info)
Francisco de Zurbaran - Saint Francis in Meditation

Great Musicians

John Adams - Shaker Loop
Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto
Louis W. Ballard - Katcina Dances
Ludwig van Beethoven - Fifth Symphony
Prince Benbadhanabangse - Lao Duang Duen Trem
Alban Berg - Lulu
David Blanasi - Didgeridoo Improvisation
Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5
Benjamin Britten - Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Prince Buster - Al Capone
William Byrd - Agnus Dei
John Cage - In a Landscape
Carlos Chavez - Sinfonia India
Frederic Chopin - Raindrops
Pak Cokro - Ladrang Sri Duhito
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Sayed Darwish - Ana Haweet
Claude Debussy - Sunken Cathedral
Guillaume Dufay - Ave Maris Stella
Anton Dvorak - Symphony No. 9
Duke Ellington - Caravan
Enheduanna - Nin Me Schara
Erken - Symphony No. 1
Gaspar Fernandes - Xicochi
Claude François - Alexandrie Alexandra
Francisco Manuel da Silva - Te Deum
Giovanni Gabrieli - Magnum Mysterium
George Gershwin - I Got Rhythm
Carlo Gesualdo - Poiche L'Avida Sete
Guido - Ut Queant Laxis
George Handel - Water Music
Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 93
Higuchi - Daha
Gustav Holst - Saturn
Charles Ives - Variations on America
Ji Kang - Guangling San (More info in Chinese)
Al-Kindi - Dervish Tune
Orlande de Lassus - Bonjour mon Coeur
Solomon Linda - Mbube
Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody
Emerico Lobo de Mesquita - Regina Salve
Guillaume de Machaut - Messe
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5
Mirabai - Payoji Maine
Mesomedes - Hymn to the Muse (Listen)
Mikhail Mishaqah - Dervish Tune
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Modest Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain
R. Carlos Nakai - Song for the Morning Star
Jacob Obrecht - Salve Regina
Johannes Ockeghem - Kyrie
Niccolo Paganini - Caprice 24
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Missa Papae Marcelli
Hanna Petros - Syriac Hymn
Josquin des Prez - Nymphes des Bois
Rakha - Jhaptal
Maurice Ravel - String Quartet
Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint
Silvestre Revueltas - Sensemaya
Johann Strauss II - Die Fledermaus (Listen)
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra
Camille Saint-Saens - Symphony No. 3
Esteban Salas y Castro - Gloria
Erik Satie - Parade
Manuel Saumell - Contradanzas
Thomas Tallis - Spem in Alium
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture
Giuseppe Verdi - Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La Forza del Destino) (Listen)
Richard Wagner - Die Walkure
Hugo Wolf - Magdlein
Yamada Kengyo - Sakura Gari
Yatsuhashi Kengyo - Rokudan
Ziryab - Lamma Bada