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old master

noun as in museum piece

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In a series of studies by a Parisian researcher and Michigan-based violin maker, violinists were essentially blindfolded and allowed to fiddle around with both old master and new, high-end instruments.

Microscopic images of modern violins and old ones showed no obvious differences in structure, although the old master violins were remarkably well-preserved relative to other aged spruce.

While rerecording her old masters, Swift has been keeping busy throughout the pandemic.

From Vox

So maybe what I've really got here is an Old Master discard being used – by me, the museum visitor – as a modern objet trouvé.

The painting is now up in the rehung Old Master galleries at the Met.

Instead, Costume Institute curators seem more wedded to surface appearance than any connoisseur of Old Master oils could be.

As Old Master paintings are bent or rolled, the paint cracks and drops off.

The Daily Pic: Li Songsong, an old master back from the future.

It opens with a single door, the outside of which is a fine picture by some old master, representing the judgment of Solomon.

How many imitators of the great manipulator have looked at this growth of pine and wondered where the old master obtained it!

As the old master draper had never yet bid his assistant be seated in his presence, Joseph Lebas was startled.

In Woodbridge he married a niece of his old master, and went into partnership with her brother as corn and coal merchant.

He seems always anxious that his old master should know how he fared, especially hear of his success.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to old master, such as: antique, classic, collector's item, collector's piece, curio, and heirloom.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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