master-artist

But there were too many other rulers on the long road to Persia, who would not let the master-artist of Yakkagala slip through their greedy fingers.

The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979

The rushing stream, whose music is like some far-off echo; the strange deserted village; the narrow line of dark rails up the mountain-side through the snow; the gloomy, cavernous tunnels; the setting sun in the west gilding all with its transfiguring touch -- these give a scene worthy the brush of a master-artist, who has never yet found his way over the Pine Mountain trail to the South Fork and Wright's Cove Mine.

The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher

The picture with its graceful feminine forms and twining lines has the same quality of rhythmical exaltation as Plates 19 and 35, a quality typical of the Garwhal master-artist in his greatest phase.

The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry W. G. Archer 1943

And within the box was a small bronze placque exquisitely engraved by a master-artist ... bearing a message of appreciation exquisitely phrased ... the names of all his friends.

The Native Son Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

Naturally it was never made a matter of record, [128] but was transmitted by oral tradition within the order; and it was also natural, if not inevitable, that the legend, of the master-artist of the Temple should be "the Master's Part" among Masons who were temple-builders.

The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Joseph Fort Newton 1913

While allusion is made to the master-artist of the temple, his name is not mentioned, _except in disguise_.

The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Joseph Fort Newton 1913

For this once, by your leave, we won't "can" the sentiment, -- to use an idiom in which you are the master-artist on this continent, -- but I, at least, will luxuriate in retrospect, as I write your name by way of dedication to this volume of essays, for some of which your quick-firing mind is somewhat more than editorially responsible.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

Each of these three compositions must, of course, have been designed by one master-artist and executed by or with the help of subordinate artists or workmen.

A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886

If I have renounced this idea, if I have declined an undertaking which had obtained the approbation of a master-artist, [4] my excuse may be found in the extreme difficulty of assigning a proper measure to such a catalogue.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

If I have renounced this idea, if I have declined an undertaking which had obtained the approbation of a master-artist, * my excuse may be found in the extreme difficulty of assigning a proper measure to such a catalogue.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765