It's one of the outstanding masterpieces of 1939, the supposed annus mirabilis of Studio Hollywood Classicism, along with Gone With The Wind (Victor Fleming, after countless other directors had been hired and fired on the two projects, ended up getting the directorial credit on both).
According to Thomson, "The surviving portions of the palace scattered between the Tuileries gardens, the courtyards of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts [Paris] and the Château de la Punta in Corsica show that the columns, pilasters, dormers and tabernacles of the Tuileries were the outstanding masterpieces of non-figurative French Renaissance architectural sculpture".
One outstanding masterpiece from Chaiya, of Dvaravati date, may well be a work produced in Shrivijaya.
Unesco put the temple, perched on a rocky plateau overlooking Thailand and Cambodia, on its world heritage list in 2008, calling it "an outstanding masterpiece of Khmer architecture".
A genius who died in his mid-30s, at the height of his powers, leaving one outstanding masterpiece behind him: for me all this gave Byron a fascination quite unlike that of any of his contemporaries.
Thai forces had occupied the area after the 11th century temple's inclusion in the World Heritage list in 2008 as "an outstanding masterpiece of Khmer architecture". Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen welcomed the ruling, saying it "gives the frontier between the two countries a clear borderline," the Associated Press reported.
The outstanding architectural masterpiece of the area is Woburn Abbey, seat of the dukes of Bedford.
"It follows the trend of masterpieces achieving outstanding prices," said Jussi Pylkkanen, global president of Christie's and the auctioneer for the sale.
Responding to the political and social landscapes of the age, traditional and new practices competed and combined in innovative ways that resulted in masterpieces of outstanding realism and dynamism.
He also shows how the Court's decisions on apolitical issues often 'rest on various types of information not immediately apparent even to a trained observer.'" "Ronald J. Mann's book is a masterpiece of outstanding academic scholarship.
There are outstanding performances of all the masterpieces - from En Saga to Tapiola, via the complete Lemminkainen Suite and The Oceanides, Pohjola's Daughter, Luonnotar, and less well-known masterpieces such as The Bard, Night Ride and Sunrise and The Dryad, together with fascinating, scarcely known pieces such as the dauntingly sombre In Memoriam.
