Sentence examples for voracious collectors from inspiring English sources

The Medici were voracious collectors of the tin-glazed decorated earthenware and, though hundreds of items were dispersed (200 pieces were sold at the end of the 18th century), the Bargello museum here inherited a superlative selection.

For an hour and a half last night, the world stopped at Christie's as a group of voracious collectors grabbed and fought over 25 paintings and sculptures collected in the 1920's and 30's, as soon as artists like Picasso and Miró, Léger and and Magritte had finished them.

But Murray was an exceptionally bright child and a voracious collector of language and information.

1. Natalia Vodianova is a voracious collector of 1920's and 30's couture and jewelry.

A FAMOUS connoisseur, charismatic teacher and voracious collector of Indian and Islamic art, Stuart Cary Welch died three years ago, aged 80.

Balzac was himself a man for stuff and possessions, a maniacally voracious collector of furnishings and art objects.

Thyssen-Bornemisza quickly gained a reputation as a sharp businessman, a society jet-setter, and a voracious collector.

The emperor was a voracious collector and art patron who encouraged his court painters to study Castiglione's work.

A voracious collector of Grand Slam titles, Serena Williams has not had the same acquisitive zeal when it comes to the regular tour.

That was not the fate of the other 12th-century Cistercian monastery that Hearst, ever the voracious collector, had dismantled and shipped from Spain in 1925.

King is a voracious collector of all things Soviet, and some of his collection is on view in its own gallery at the Tate Modern in London.