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something (as a work of art) that is a great achievement and often its creator's greatest achievement
Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel are often considered to be his masterpieces
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Brown’s pages on her corgis, those rather unpleasant little Welsh dogs, are a comic masterpiece.
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Read: David Lynch's unfathomable masterpiece Lynch took many, many creative risks over the years, but Blue Velvet is the movie that perhaps best melded grim violence and white-picket-fence cheerfulness—a vision that came to characterize him in the public eye.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
The sprawling grounds of France’s opulent Palace of Versailles are not only a masterpiece of landscaping, but a mark of 17th-century engineering innovation.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
One of Jean-Luc Godard’s most colorful, joyful, and unapologetically playful masterpieces of the 1960s has received a new 4K restoration.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 14 Jan. 2025
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Read: David Lynch's unfathomable masterpiece Lynch took many, many creative risks over the years, but Blue Velvet is the movie that perhaps best melded grim violence and white-picket-fence cheerfulness—a vision that came to characterize him in the public eye.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
The sprawling grounds of France’s opulent Palace of Versailles are not only a masterpiece of landscaping, but a mark of 17th-century engineering innovation.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
One of Jean-Luc Godard’s most colorful, joyful, and unapologetically playful masterpieces of the 1960s has received a new 4K restoration.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Masterpiece.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masterpiece. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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