Sentence examples for masterpieces itself from inspiring English sources

In 1991 Mr. Annenberg pledged his renowned collection of blue-chip Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces, itself said to be worth more than $1 billion at the time, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of which he was a trustee emeritus.

In a 1944 essay, he rails against not only the unchanging nature of that repertory but also the idea of the masterpiece itself.

Once by Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece itself and then again by the technology that allows me to explore the nooks and crannies of this amazing room from my desk in King's Cross.

The feature-length pilot episode (directed by Lynch) is a masterpiece in itself.

That Richter homes in on the annunciation is doubly significant, since Titian's masterpiece concerns itself with divine revelation, with the act of making known.

From the get-go – "I am an American, Chicago-born" – this turbo-charged masterpiece declares itself to be a heavyweight contender; and for some, The Adventures of Augie March is a knockout.

And what happens if, as in the case of Proust, the artist's masterpiece happens itself to be the story of a life, the quasi-autobiographical account of a would-be writer who believes his time to have been wasted on parties and ephemeral amours only to discover that he does after all have a vocation and the talent to write a novel about time?

Making it to school with little kids dressed and fed was a masterpiece in itself.

But The Conformist deserves to be appreciated not for prefiguring future cinematic masterpieces, but for itself.

Son of the Morning Star (1985), Connell's magnificent study of General Custer's last stand, was described by the writer Larry McMurtry as "one of the few masterpieces to concern itself with the American west".

Inside the lighting is far from perfect, and the collection itself, mixing masterpieces by Cézanne, Picasso and Soutine with second-rate paintings by lesser-known artists, has a distinctly oddball flavor.