masterwork

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Readers of “The Marble Faun” will find Hawthorne at the height of his descriptive abilities, particularly in his accounts of Roman masterworks, which qualify as artworks themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

He told the CBC that it took hundreds of attempts to capture these slow-burning masterworks, and all these years later, hygge-seekers remain rapt.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

Museums take paintings down from their walls and put them in the basement or never show them in the first place; rich people buy masterworks and lock them in their vaults.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2025

At the end of nearly four hours, jittery from caffeine, the group stood before a pile of crumpled masterworks on the floor as we assembled our chosen 25 images on a conference table.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2024

I should ease my heart among the masterworks of Girolamo dai Libri and Cavazzola, and, in the presence of the blue castellated mountains they loved to paint, my spirit would even be as theirs.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John