Sentence examples for master of french from inspiring English sources

MINNEAPOLIS "Degas: Master of French Impressionism".

A superb engraver and a fine draftsman, Robert Nanteuil is considered the undisputed master of French portrait engraving.

Charles was an avid traveler, passionate about opera and art, and a master of French language and culture.

He now had in his sights the legacy of the master of French grand opera: "your enemy Meyerbeer," as Verdi's ever-wary companion, Giuseppina Strepponi, called him.

His virtuoso treatment of the poetic metre used in 17th-century French tragedy, the alexandrine line, is the basis for his status as the uncontested master of French classicism.

From a religious point of view, he was often quoted as a master of French Roman Catholic thought, but he has been opposed by the Ultramontanists, Catholic progressives and modernists, and many of Fénelon's numerous admirers.

By the mid-1850s, Degas had become one of the masters of French portraiture in a manner that reflects the influence of the great painters of the past.

With luxurious yellow and blue fabric and a sweet, gentle face, it was judged to be a new, and hitherto completely unknown, portrait of St Catherine of Alexandria, an early Christian martyr, painted in Rome in 1626, by Simon Vouet, one of the masters of French Caravaggism.

It describes an old-fashioned boardroom plot against him orchestrated by members of the Bronfman family, who sold Mr. Messier the Seagram Company for $34 billion in 2000, but above all by the French insurance magnate Claude Bébéar, whom Mr. Messier depicts as one of the grand puppet masters of French capitalism.

One of the original masters of French house music, Etienne de Crecy emerged from a ten-year slumber this past January with the launch of Super Discount 3, a long-awaited reboot of a pivotal album/EP series he'd launched back in 1997.

He is probably the most revered master of old French music in France.