virtuoso

(noun)

A person (especially a musician) with masterly ability, technique, or personal style.

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Examples of virtuoso in the following topics:

  • Dutch Rationalist Architecture

    • The most important architects and virtuoso artists of the Amsterdam School were Michel de Klerk and Piet Kramer.

  • Sculpture

    • Late Gothic sculpture continued in the North, with a fashion for very large wooden sculpted altarpieces with increasingly virtuoso carving and large numbers of agitated expressive figures; most surviving examples are in Germany, a result of extensive iconoclasm (image destruction) elsewhere.

  • Wood Sculpture in the Northern Renaissance

    • His virtuoso carving of billowing drapery helps to underscore this sense of emotion.