masterpiece
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"Girl with a Pearl Earring" will go on show in Osaka this week, on a rare trip abroad for the 17th-century Johannes Vermeer masterpiece and potentially its last to Japan.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Reviews praised its candour and musical invention, calling Allen's work "breathtaking and heartbreaking", external and "a brutal, tell-all masterpiece", external.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
That noirish masterpiece was cast entirely with supporting players, performers whose characters were usually killed off or otherwise dismissed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
No one outside the Marvel fan ecosystem is arguing that “Avengers: Endgame,” one of the highest-grossing films of all time, is a cinematic masterpiece on par with the all-time great classics.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
With Sally snuggled tightly around his neck, he made his way through the rain to the biggest cake he’d ever seen—a fifty-layer-high masterpiece of sugary wonder.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
From masterpieces to trash-terpieces, I’m willing to defend most directors against critics who assume they’ve thought more about a movie’s flaws in two hours than the filmmaker did during a year of work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art holds the country's largest collection of Italian and international art from the 19th and 209th centuries, including masterpieces by Giorgio de Chirico, Amedeo Modigliani and others.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Julian Gascoigne, senior director in the paintings department, said the work was one of Landseer's great Highland masterpieces.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
If you don’t want to paint, watching Ross whisk landscape masterpieces into being within 30 minutes, exercising a sorcerer’s assuredness, is diversion enough.
From Salon ● May 2, 2026
The work that eventually emerged from all this anguish, his fifth symphony, premiered in November 1937, is now recognised as one of the classical masterpieces of the twentieth century.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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