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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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Gape at artistic masterpieces at the Museo e Bosco Reale di Capodimonte.
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Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2024
Phan Huy is an independent designer from Vietnam who creates garments the way a sculptor would a masterpiece.
—Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
The show has a tall task to match the book, which is a journalistic masterpiece from one of the best non-fiction writers alive, Patrick Radden Keefe.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
The classic examples are modernist masterpieces like Ulysses, in which James Joyce dilates a day to 732 pages and switches stylistic conceits with each chapter, and Mrs. Dalloway, rooted in the interiority of Virginia Woolf’s protagonist.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Dec. 2024
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Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2024
Phan Huy is an independent designer from Vietnam who creates garments the way a sculptor would a masterpiece.
—Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
The show has a tall task to match the book, which is a journalistic masterpiece from one of the best non-fiction writers alive, Patrick Radden Keefe.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
The classic examples are modernist masterpieces like Ulysses, in which James Joyce dilates a day to 732 pages and switches stylistic conceits with each chapter, and Mrs. Dalloway, rooted in the interiority of Virginia Woolf’s protagonist.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Masterpiece.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masterpiece. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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