Sentence examples for master of works from inspiring English sources

The great sculptures of his funerary temple, including the immense Colossi of Memnon, were part of the noble designs of his master of works, also called Amenhotep (son of Hapu).

When he arrived there, the artist proved to have a phenomenal ability to design and realize hugely complex architectural and decorative projects, marshaling dozens of assistants, and over the next 20 years the center of Florence was radically restructured by Duke Cosimo and his new master of works to reflect new political realities.

A mason's mark chiselled on a column; a game of nine-men's-morris scratched on a stone; a gargoyle's half-human face, of foreman or master of works, are all that remind observers of the crowds of labouring souls who raised Canterbury or Winchester, Beauvais or Cologne.The dangers of such projects were legion.

The mason William Wallace and master of works James Murray introduced an early Scottish example of the double-pile block.

The middle level contained two cabins, one for Stevenson, the other for his master of works, whilst the top level provided sleeping quarters for a further 30 to 40 men.

And Handel was a master of working with the forces that were available to him.

Rocky Graziano, meanwhile, was a master of working around revoked licences.

The situation there wasn't much better, but Hannibal was a master of working with the tools at hand.

Glavine is a master of working the outside corner, expanding the strike zone to his specifications and forcing hitters to hit his pitch and not one over the middle of the plate.

Yep, looks like the master of working the late-1990s medis is back.

Some of these works were supervised by William MacDowall, the master of work who fifteen years earlier had repaired David's Tower.