This is not so much the doom as the function of all "revolutionary" or experimental art, and I think masterwork is usually the result of the return from such excess.
Had I said "deliberately subordinated" I should have indicated the main difference as well as the main likeness between Bach's masterworkand Mozart's.
Above the entrance to the cloister is an equestrian statue of St. Bartholomew, a masterwork of sixteenth-century German sculpture.
The casket in which repose the relics of the Three Magi is a masterwork of the goldsmith's art of the twelfth century.
Though not really a massive structure, the church of St. Quirinus is, in every particular, of a strength and solidity which rank it as a masterwork of its age.
He regards this masterwork as 'the Drama of the Doubter;' as 'the apotheosis of a practical Christianity.
She had felt friendship for my father, not because of his social position, but because she had looked upon him as a masterwork of nature.
In my feeling for her there is neither affection nor tenderness,--nothing but rapture at the sight of nature's masterwork, and the attraction natural in a man when that masterwork is a woman.
The architect, in spite of the imposing situation, is not seen at his best here, for in no way does it compare with his masterwork at Anet, or the Tuileries.
The twelfth-century cloister was indeed a masterwork among those examples, all too rare, existing to-day.
Marie-Majeure assuredly takes, both as to its plan and the magnitude on which it has been carried out, the rank of a masterwork of architecture.
