Masterpieces

This week, an Italian company put online high-resolution images of "The Birth of Venus" and five other masterpieces from the Uffizi gallery in Florence, including works by Caravaggio and Leonardo da Vinci. ❋ AP (2010)

Here's a video of them capturing some of the 14 masterpieces from the The Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His ability to turn various bits of music into rock music masterpieces is what inspires many to classify him as a musical genius, and without a doubt the main reason Lynyrd Skynyrd became such a popular band. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Art History Podcast: Learn Out Loud's art history podcast has brief look at masterpieces from the history of art at LearnOutLoud. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Calling it one of Pixar's masterpieces is not an understatement - everyone is loving the movie and already referring to it as one of Pixar's best films in their 22 year history. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Peppa said followers of the old religion object to the removal last year of hundreds of sculptural masterpieces from a tiny museum on the Acropolis to a large new building under the citadel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Frans Hals and the Haarlem Masters of the Golden Age" showcases masterpieces from the Dutch Golden Age in Haarlem, including art by Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617), Frans Hals (1580-1666), Jacob van Ruysdael (1628-82) and others. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A secret collection of priceless, illicitly gained Impressionist masterpieces is missing. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The book, like so many of the world's masterpieces, is short, and a fashionable novelist of to-day could scribble in a fortnight as many words as it contains. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

They're in a traveling show of Venetian masterpieces from the National Gallery of Scotland, which began last fall at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But to argue that Burma holds the subliminal keys to Orwell’s political masterpieces is a bit of a stretch, although there are certainly echoes of the writer’s experiences in them. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In an auction season that has so far been unkind to pieces not classified as masterpieces, he remains confident in the New York market and in Wednesday's sale, which will include privately collected works by such marquee names as Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol, whose "Self-Portrait" 1963-64 is expected to fetch up to $30 million. ❋ Megan M. Garwood (2011)

Though I've looked askance a lot lately at certain claims made on behalf of the graphic novel and the movie, I think both could fairly be called masterpieces of the superhero genre in their respective mediums. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The average — or only slightly above average — detective story does … And the strange thing is that this average, more than middling dull, pooped-out piece of utterly unreal and mechanical fiction is really not very different from what are called the masterpieces of the art. ❋ Unknown (2007)