Sentence examples for master pictures from inspiring English sources
"It has given us the opportunity to really look at the hang afresh," said Lucy Davis, the Wallace's curator of old master pictures.
After World War II, van Meegeren was arrested on the charge of suspected collaboration, having sold several purported old master pictures to the Nazis.
(He would also have shared the Gaullist faith in a national cultural politics; many of the core Old Master pictures, including the great Botticellis and a Piero, in the London National Gallery were bought at his behest).
It is apt that a Dutch queen often characterized as a low-key royal should have opened a fair sometimes characterized as the anti-Art Basel, a determinedly quiet assemblage of 260 dealers who this year brought along with them $1.5 billion worth of old master pictures, archaic Chinese bronzes, so-called fine French furniture and virtually anything bearing the stamp of antiquity.
The most remarkable old master picture to have turned up in a long time revealed its every blemish and bruise, but also its virtues.
In The Faerie Queene Spenser proves himself a master: picture, music, metre, story all elements are at one with the deeper significance of his poem, providing a moral heraldry of colours, emblems, legends, folklore, and mythical allusion, all prompting deep, instinctive responses.
Recently, Mr. Sturman's stunning photos of Tao Porchon Lynch, a 93-year-old yoga master pictured in a red flowing gown, have been making the rounds on Facebook and other Web sites, bringing added attention to his work, which is featured in the slide show above.
"It is difficult to weigh up the public benefit of an old master picture against a wildflower meadow or a vintage steam engine, but the national lottery is the only real source of funding for much of the UK's heritage".
Just as an old master picture shows us what paint can do, so Warhol's fanatically unhurried cinema – Empire (1964) consists of a single shot of the Empire State Building running to eight hours and five minutes – demonstrates to the viewer the penetrating insight of the camera.
Sammy Davis Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me is an American Masters Pictures production in co-production with ZDF in collaboration with ARTE.
The main floor of the old masters picture gallery, dominated by Italian, Flemish and Dutch masterpieces, reopened on Nov. 9.
