Portions of this interview appear in I Build the Tower, a documentary film on Rodia's architectural masterpiece.

Although it did not achieve the same levels of commercial success as the band's later releases ( it reached # 73 on the Billboard 200 ), it has been hailed by many fans and critics as Dream Theater's masterpiece and the band's defining album.

In the Late Renaissance and Baroque the painting of actual history tended to degenerate into panoramic battle-scenes with the victorious monarch or general perched on a horse accompanied with his retinue, or formal scenes of ceremonies, although some artists managed to make a masterpiece from such unpromising material, as Velázquez did with his The Surrender of Breda.

"' Forever Changes ' is also an album that heralds the last days of a golden age and anticipates the growing ugliness that would dominate the counterculture in 1968 and 1969 ... ' Forever Changes ' is inarguably Love's masterpiece and an album of enduring beauty, but it's also one of the few major works of its era that saw the dark clouds looming on the cultural horizon, and the result was music that was as prescient as it was compelling.

In a 2001 retrospective review of " Forever Changes ," Andrew Cowen of The Birmingham Post ( UK ) wrote, " This 1967 masterpiece ... is the nearest the Americans came to having their own ' Sgt Pepper ' and, in true American style, it was largely overlooked by the mainstream audience which, at the time, was hanging on every note played by The Beatles.

* 1999 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.

On December 15, 2009, the U. S. House of Representatives passed a symbolic resolution recognizing and commemorating the album Kind of Blue on its 50th anniversary, " honoring the masterpiece and reaffirming jazz as a national treasure.

GameSpot agreed with positive reviews and praised every aspect of the game, stating " Quake is a masterpiece on every level, with its ominous atmosphere, silky-smooth animation, incredibly well-balanced gameplay and level design, and unparalleled soundtrack.

The Academic Quad, anchored by a statue of founder William Marsh Rice, includes Ralph Adams Cram's masterpiece, the asymmetrical Lovett Hall, the original administrative building ; Fondren Library ; Herzstein Hall, the physics building and home to the largest amphitheater on campus ; Sewall Hall for the social sciences and arts ; Rayzor Hall for the languages ; and Anderson Hall of the Architecture department.

These singles were collected on Singles Going Steady, described by critic Ned Raggett as a " punk masterpiece ".

* Francis de Sales ' literary masterpiece Treatise on the Love of God is published, while he is Bishop of Geneva.

When the original version of the film was released on DVD in the USA, it finally gained major critical acclaim, with some critics hailing the film as a masterpiece.

He steadily created a renowned botanical masterpiece on the estate, achieved primarily with many of the great variety of foreign plants he had collected on his extensive travels around the world, particularly to Australia and the South Seas.

This first of the famous " Stanze " or " Raphael Rooms " to be painted, now always known as the Stanza della Segnatura after its use in Vasari's time, was to make a stunning impact on Roman art, and remains generally regarded as his greatest masterpiece, containing The School of Athens, The Parnassus and the Disputa.

Despite the trial, the film was still a success, with critics calling it a masterpiece on par with Broken Blossoms and Four Horsemen.

In his work on the divine proportion, H. E. Huntley relates the feeling of reading and understanding someone else's proof of a theorem of mathematics to that of a viewer of a masterpiece of art — the reader of a proof has a similar sense of exhilaration at understanding as the original author of the proof, much as, he argues, the viewer of a masterpiece has a sense of exhilaration similar to the original painter or sculptor.

Once Engels made it to Britain, he decided to re-enter the Manchester company in which his father held shares, in order to be able to support Marx financially so he could work on his masterpiece " Das Kapital ".

It is accepted as a masterpiece on strategy and is frequently cited and referred to by generals and theorists since it was first published, translated, and distributed internationally.

He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710.

His story is based on three assumptions: a masterpiece of a blacksmith who wished to access the mastery of his art, a pillory for troubled children or the sign of a tavern, " The tavern in the town square " which is found in the basement of Town hall.

In the summer of 1884, Seurat began work on his masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, which took him two years to complete.

The Temple of Heaven was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998 and was described as " a masterpiece of architecture and landscape design which simply and graphically illustrates a cosmogony of great importance for the evolution of one of the world ’ s great civilizations ..." as the " symbolic layout and design of the Temple of Heaven had a profound influence on architecture and planning in the Far East over many centuries.

According to Boord, " it was precisely during this retreat that the many strands of kila lore were finally woven together into a coherent masterpiece of tantric Buddhism and thus it helps to illuminate the process by which tantric methods were being related to soteriology at this time.

The film is seen by many as a Western masterpiece and has been awarded a 97 % rating on the critical website Rotten Tomatoes.

Venice Film Festival director Alberto Barbera described the film as an " absolute masterpiece " that had disappeared, and whose 1980 cutting was characterized as a " massacre " by nervous producers and had been " one of the greatest injustices of cinematic history " that had destroyed careers ( Cimino and Kristofferson ) following " annihilat " critical reviews.

In 1954 he published his masterpiece, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848 – 1918 and followed it up with The Trouble Makers in 1957, a critical study of British foreign policy.

Schwartz was deeply upset when his epic poem, Genesis, which he published in 1943 and hoped would stand along side other Modernist epics like The Waste Land and The Cantos as a masterpiece, received a negative critical response.

Concerning a female cyborg desperate to find the meaning of her existence, the film was a critical success and is widely regarded to be a masterpiece and anime classic.

On its initial release, it was an unprecedented critical succes and immediately called a masterpiece.

Although Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs ( 1970 ) is now acknowledged as his masterpiece, the album's relatively poor critical and commercial reception was overshadowed by the tragic deaths of Eric Clapton's close friends Jimi Hendrix ( who died while the sessions were underway ) and the subsequent death of Allman himself in October 1971.

Zaide has since been said to be the foundations of a masterpiece, and received critical acclaim.

Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic wrote that the album was " a work of breathtaking creative breadth " and noted the album's critical praise stating that " not since the release of Tiamat's groundbreaking masterpiece Wildhoney in 1994 had the extreme metal scene witnessed such an overwhelming show of fan enthusiasm and uniform critical praise as that bestowed upon Blackwater Park ".

Axël was the work Villiers considered his masterpiece, although critical opinion has often been reluctant to agree with him, placing far higher value on his fiction.

Still, the Farnsworth House has continued to receive wide critical acclaim as a masterpiece of the modernist style, and Mies went on to receive the presidential Medal of Freedom for his contribution to American architecture and culture.

That same year, he starred in the Jean Renoir masterpiece La Grande Illusion, an anti-war film that was a huge box office success and given universal critical acclaim, even running at a New York City theatre for an unprecedented six months.

The Early Days was met with critical acclaim, with Allmusic describing it as " A masterpiece.

Modern critical opinion is that Agrippina is Handel's first operatic masterpiece, full of freshness and musical invention which have made it one of the most popular operas of the continuing Handel revival.

Although the novel initially generated only lukewarm critical and commercial reception, it has since become highly acclaimed and is widely recognized as McCarthy's masterpiece.

Hearts and Minds has attracted extensive critical attention, almost all of it either glowingly positive or damningly negative, but rarely anything in between, with reviewers tending to treat it either as a masterpiece in political documentary film making or as a hatchet job anti-Vietnam War propaganda film, one that has received " passionately opposing views ".

George Stoneman's raid in the Battle of Chancellorsville was a failure ; Benjamin Grierson's raid in the Vicksburg Campaign was a strategic masterpiece that diverted critical Confederate forces away from Ulysses S. Grant's army ; James H. Wilson's massive 1865 raid in Alabama foreshadowed the armored warfare maneuvers of World War II.

His comparative approach is obvious in the following excerpt from Chapter III of Book I of what many consider to be his masterpiece, De l ' esprit des lois:

Jeremy Parish of 1UP. com expressed his disagreement with the game's status as an " unfairly forgotten masterpiece " among its substantial Internet following.

Kmoch wrote, " The following game, a stunning masterpiece of combination play performed by a boy of 13 against a formidable opponent, matches the finest on record in the history of chess prodigies.

However, it attracted a cult following, and in later years, it has been re-evaluated and is now considered a masterpiece.

In Brazil, where the beloved character / actor ( as the show itself ) is culted by the 80's and 90's generation as a vintage masterpiece, he was known as Seu Madruga instead ( literally: Mr. Dawn, for Madruga is short for Madrugada ( dawn ), following the Portuguese dubbing for El Chavo del Ocho, which, in that country, is called simply Chaves.

In the following year, Johnson wrote what some consider his masterpiece, " The Dark Angel ".

He will find that voice the following year on his masterpiece, Late for the Sky.

Then after The Months came another masterpiece, the Helicon Vase, in steel, silver, and gold, priced at oco, which in course of time was presented by the ladies and gentlemen of the royal house to Queen Victoria on her first jubilee ; For the Philadelphia Exhibition ( 1876 ) Morel-Ladeuil produced " A Pompeian Lady at her Toilet ," following it in 1878 with the " Bunyan Shield ," a companion to the Milton.