But the prevailing influence is Daphne du Maurier, who translated the motifs of "Jane Eyre" into a set of twentieth-century-ready tropes with her masterpiece, "Rebecca," a novel that, like the woman who wrote it, has been critically underrated and popularly adored since its publication, in 1938.
There grew a small and precious collection of masterpieces and near-masterpieces - two more quartets, three concertos and a set of orchestral variations - each one further refining his technique and personalising his ways of controlling the musical material.
I read a lot of masterpieces.
Leonardo's masterpiece is an icon among icons, a treasure elevated above a horde of masterpieces.
In the years since, sites have been nominated based on a specific set of criteria -- which include representations of "a masterpiece of human creative genius" and examples of "superlative natural phenomena" -- and are then voted on by the committee, made up of members from a variety of countries.
On the set of his 1972 masterpiece, "Aguirre, The Wrath of God," a vertiginous portrait of a Spanish conquistador who unravels during a search for El Dorado, Herzog struggled to control his gifted but satanically mercurial star, Klaus Kinski; at one point, when Kinski abruptly announced that he was quitting the production and leaving by canoe, Herzog threatened to shoot him.
Many of his best-loved works are set to masterpieces of the baroque canon.
So the time is right for Peter Braatz's experimental documentary "Blue Velvet Revisited," which unearths a trove of behind-the-scenes photographs and Super 8 footage that the director shot on the set of Lynch's 1986 masterpiece.
The stage was set for a masterpiece of fibrillating absurdity.
John Iacovelli's set is a masterpiece of its kind.
Last week, at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Mr. Dillane appeared in the theater piece "Four Quartets," which juxtaposed the set of poems T. S. Eliot considered his masterpiece with Beethoven's Opus 132 String Quartet, Eliot's acknowledged model.
