Sentence examples similar to master paint from inspiring English sources

While science and technology have made it easier to restore an old master painting damaged by water or sunlight, some paintings -- monochromatic works from the 1960's, like Reinhardt's, for example -- pose special problems.

But Scott J. Schaefer, formerly an old master painting expert for Sotheby's and now the Getty's paintings curator, was sitting in the salesroom and said the museum did not even bid.

So five centuries of old master painting stayed where it was and fell into a doze.

"Sotheby's is like an old master painting in desperate need of restoration," Mr. Loeb wrote.

David McVicar's production is as painstakingly detailed and soberly handsome as an old master painting.

She spent summers visiting museums in Europe, pursuing an  interest in quattrocento and old master painting.

The Germans traded it to a Munich dealer for a minor old master painting.

Mastroberardino's Radici Taurasi Riserva, a deep and pricey winter red, evokes an old master painting.

And it lends itself to co-ownership to a much greater degree than a fragile, old master painting".

Around 1510, the master painted "Adam and Eve" on two panels designed to be hung side by side.

It is a masterpiece — tonally rich, meticulously composed and romantically atmospheric; it looks like an old master painting.