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masterpiece

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


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The early medieval masterpiece, which tells the story of the events leading up to 1066 and the Norman Conquest, is being checked over by French and British conservators ahead of going on display in September.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Unbeknownst to late night stragglers, it was carrying a 1,000-year-old masterpiece: the Bayeux Tapestry.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

However, the “Festival Suite,” although first-rate Ellington, would never be regarded as a masterpiece.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

As De Palma’s masterpiece reminds us, love can be just as immortalizing as film.

From Salon Jul. 4, 2026

At sixteen, he made his way through Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead’s famously abstruse masterpiece Principia Mathematica.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

It was the year Glass wrote “Einstein on the Beach” and Steve Reich created “Music for 18 Musicians” — the composers’ first masterpieces — demonstrating that Minimalism mattered.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 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

“Aren’t you glad you aren’t responsible for saving one of the world’s masterpieces from a maniac?”

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett




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