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.

• Wood Sculpture in the Northern Renaissance

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