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masterpiece

[mas-ter-pees, mah-ster-] / ˈmæs tərˌpis, ˈmɑ stər- /


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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

The innovative 1,000-seat hall for concert, opera and dance looks to be Frank Gehry’s last music-meant masterpiece certain to usher in a new era for the Grand Avenue cultural district.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

For one thing, the album’s 14 tracks are a tour de force, a masterpiece of inspired songwriting and musicianship.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

The Times described it as "a masterpiece in every way", and the Standard praised the film as a "colossal piece of cinema".

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

He told Bobby that the film had the potential to become a masterpiece: “This will be a postmodernist documentary with feature elements.”

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Among the paintings now on display are several widely viewed as Kahlo masterpieces.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 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

Estimated by art historians to have been begun sometime after 1317, the frescoes are considered to be one of Giotto di Bondone's masterpieces.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 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

Last year not one but two bakers had crafted fifty-layer-high masterpieces of sugary wonder, studded with frosted stars and flowers and figurines.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff




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