virtuoso

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.

• Erasmus

  • In Praise of Folly starts off with Folly praising herself, after the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian, whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin, a piece of virtuoso foolery; it then takes a darker tone in a series of orations, as Folly praises self-deception and madness and moves to a satirical examination of pious but superstitious abuses of Catholic doctrine and corrupt practices in parts of the Roman Catholic Church—to which Erasmus was ever faithful—and the folly of pedants.

• Wood Sculpture in the Northern Renaissance

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

• Popular Culture

  • Virtuoso soloists often led their swing big bands (thus swing was also known as "big jazz") and their popularity was enormous, also because swing music developed with corresponding swing dance.