Sentence examples for collection of masterpieces from inspiring English sources

Police discovered a vast collection of masterpieces by some of the world's greatest artists.

It was founded by the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda in 1894 as a representative collection of masterpieces.

By the time of the art historian's death in 2011, aged 100, he had amassed a collection of masterpieces worth an estimated £100 million.

It is a cuboid-style building, unremarkable but for the fact that inside is an impressive private collection of masterpieces, many of them once banned and almost burned.

Today, this onetime U.S. congressional wife and businesswoman often gives tours herself, recounting the history of the 16th-century house and its collection of masterpieces including ceilings by Caravaggio and Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, better known by his nickname of Guercino.

So dazzling is the collection of masterpieces from Da Vinci, Rodin, the Italian Renaissance artists and the Impressionists, that visitors rarely give the city's contemporary arts scene a second glance.

Kunstmuseum Bern has a sizeable collection of modern masterpieces, including works by Paul Cézanne, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, as well as Monet and Picasso.

Walter, who is the widow also of the art merchant Paul Guillaume, has just sold to the Louvre, her Guillaume collection of 47 masterpieces.

He and his wife, Marguerite, built a terrific and personal collection of contemporary masterpieces in which each acquisition was thoughtfully made.

The Pierre hotel in New York City is planning to hang a canvas painting in the living room of its Tata Suite before the end of the year from its collection of eight masterpieces by Indian contemporary artists like M. F. Husain.

The president of a Swiss fine art museum has described the anguish surrounding its decision to accept a collection of modernist masterpieces bequeathed by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer.