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Work of art

noun

Art that is a product of one of the fine arts (especially a painting or sculpture of artistic merit).

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"Work of art" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the darkness, he found himself in a spacious, rocky room. It was one of those natural caves which seem as if the work of art, rather than a freak of nature. The room was almost a perfect square, and extending around its sides was a seat of solid rock, while in a square hole, which looked as if it had been excavated ...

— The Cabin on the Prairie • C. H. (Charles Henry) Pearson

... and almost at the gates of Pekin, the great town of Tung-tcheou and the famous bridge of Palikao, where, on the 21st of September, 1860, the Anglo-French army defeated 25,000 Tartar horsemen. This bridge, a curious work of art, measures one hundred and fifty yards in length and thirty in breadth; the marble balustrades are skilfully carved, and surmounted by marble lions ...

— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams

... boy, every experience of this sort fired my imagination with ambition, and led to all sorts of noble resolutions, some of which, at any rate, were carried into execution. The deepest impression ever made on me by any work of art was at Munich, ten years ago, when I heard for the first time Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde," which I was already familiar with through the pianoforte score. The performance began at six o'clock, and I had had nothing to eat since noon. It lasted till eleven o'clock, and one ...

— Chopin and Other Musical Essays • Henry T. Finck

... labor of the commission is finished. On their behalf I present this work of art to the ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... heard it from her lips, and her tears and her beauty replaced the language of Wagner and of Homer; and so well did they do this that I am not sure that the emotion I experienced in listening to her was less than that which I have experienced before a work of art. ...

— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore

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