Sentence examples for master painting 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.

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.

At the same time, the connoisseurship of Old Master painting was becoming increasingly professionalized.

"It really did look like an Old Master painting," he said, "but with a modern edge".

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

A grimy old-master painting of a saint gazing upward, his hands crossed on his chest and a skull perched on a rock in the foreground.

"One person who got Madoff-ed gave us an important old-master painting to sell," Mr. Feigen said, although he declined to identify the seller or the painting.

"It came from a Dutch collection," said Anthony Crichton-Stuart, a former head of Christie's old-master painting department who recently joined Noortman.

Yes, this is an Old Master painting, but in a sense this is a work apart.

She "became obsessed with becoming a conservator of Old Master painting," she added.