In a zany new competition, your wildest howl could get you a free trip to the home of Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter of the famous masterpiece, The Scream, which shows a figure howling in agony against a dramatic backdrop of swirling waters and a fiery orange sky.
Part of the surge of interest in art is profit-mindedness, not just the pride of hanging a masterpiece on the wall.
Earlier, in 2001, Cultural traditions of the Semeiskie Old Believers of Transbaikalia were the first to be recognized by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in Russia.
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"Bruges-La-Morte" ascends to the status of a masterpiece on the beauty of its prose (especially if you can read it in the French) as well as the refinement of its sensibility and the inherent drama of its plot.
The initial stage of the project is being carried out in partnership with participating agencies such as NHK, responsible for acquisition of digital data and for the preparation of digital high definition videos which would form an integral part of the digital archives of each masterpiece.
It should be noted that the proclamation of Yakut heroic epos "Olonkho" as masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity represents an exceptional value for national and world culture.
There was nothing fluky about Crosby's third goal of the series, a masterpiece that ranks among the more dazzling plays of his already highlight-heavy career.
The dreamlike atmospheres, elaborate settings and chilling musical score combine to make The Wolf Man a masterpiece of the genre.
The new compilation Smart's Palace finally reissues the track alongside a dozen or so other Wichita rarities, bringing the beautiful fragility of Theron and Darrell's unsung masterpiece to the rest of the world.
The author of this masterpiece was born in 1894 in Galicia on the Austro-Hungarian empire's north-eastern border with Russia.
Valerie Eliot edited many of TS Eliot's poems for publication, including a much-praised edition of modernist masterpiece The Waste Land.
The Art Newspaper said the removal of the black paint on the replica had revealed "the fine details of the delicate Tuscan landscape", which mirrors the background of Leonardo's masterpiece.
In full flow, the strategy is a masterpiece of keepaway: The ball zips between the Spanish midfielders and forwards until the befuddled opponent is dragged out of position, leaving space for a Spaniard to shoot on goal.
Astonishingly, the text of this mystic masterpiece was a bit of YouTube viewing reveals recently used by Ridley Scott as the background narration for a gorgeous long-form ad for Prada perfumes.
Judging from the masterpiece of technology and design that is the PlayStation Portable, the answer is an unequivocal yes.
You could frame the television like a painting (with help from specialty framers) and hang it above the fireplace, but the notion of "Masterpiece Theater" as Old Master is questionable.
Almost immediately upon arrival in Cambridge, he wrote the paper, a masterpiece of economic theory, that moved him to the highest rank of the profession.
The aim of the orb was to introduce visitors to the "masterpiece" that is the Great East Window, she said.
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The Introductory Gallery, for example, is paved with a design of white and gold marble inspired by decorations at the Taj Mahal, a masterpiece of Islamic architecture.
Prof Nucciarelli's proof that this fragment belongs to the lost masterpiece of Pinturicchio looks very convincing.
But protesters argue the loan is putting a masterpiece at risk for the sake of a commercial event.
To see the road not taken, one need only think of that parallel fantasy masterpiece, written in exactly the same decades, and on a similar scale, by a similarly eccentric Englishman: T.
Then I would take a moment to gloat over the completely labor-free, towering masterpiece of deliciousness I would get to enjoy tomorrow or the next day.
Onassis's daughter, Caroline Kennedy, was present at the centennial celebration and spoke of her mother's efforts to save the architectural masterpiece.
Apart from the Simpson masterpiece, Louisiana recently has hosted the filming of Oscar-winning biopic Ray (about Ray Charles) and the thriller Skeleton Key.
Balfe answered some questions via email on the musical background of the game, sharing with me who some of his musical influences have been, and the process of working a composition into a finished masterpiece.
Each issue is a masterpiece of improvisation by the three 27-year-old Asian-Americans who produce the magazine in their free time.
Chichikov, the character at the heart of Gogol's masterpiece, is a lower-echelon civil servant with a corrupt past who specializes in what Gogol calls "blandiloquence, " or elaborately empty compliments.
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (1599 - 1660) was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain, and is best known for his portraits of the royal family, including his masterpiece, Las Meninas.
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