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Old Master

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Any of various early (before about 1800 CE) European painters whose works are regarded as superlative.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning 2

A painting by an Old Master.

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Meaning 3

Alternative letter-case form of Old Master.

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Meaning 4

a great European painter prior to 19th century

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: maestro, master, painter

Narrower terms: Bosch, Hieronymus Bosch, Jerom Bos, Botticelli, Sandro Botticelli, Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi, Brueghel, Breughel, Bruegel, Pieter Brueghel, Pieter Breughel, Pieter Bruegel, Breughel the Elder, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Cimabue, Giovanni Cimabue, Correggio, Antonio Allegri da Correggio, Durer, Albrecht Durer, El Greco, Greco, Domenikos Theotocopoulos, Eyck, van Eyck, Jan van Eyck, Giotto, Giotto di Bondone, Hals, Frans Hals, Hogarth, William Hogarth, Holbein, Hans Holbein, Holbein the Elder, Holbein the Younger, La Tour, Georges de La Tour, Leonardo, Leonardo da Vinci, da Vinci, Lippi, Fra Filippo Lippi, Filippino Lippi, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poussin, Nicolas Poussin, Raphael, Raffaello Santi, Raffaello Sanzio, Rembrandt, Rembrandt van Rijn, Rembrandt van Ryn, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Renoir, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rubens, Peter Paul Rubens, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Steen, Jan Steen, Tintoretto, Jacopo Robusti, Titian, Tiziano Vecellio, Vandyke, Van Dyck, Anthony Vandyke, Sir Anthony Vandyke, Velazquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, Vermeer, Jan Vermeer, Jan van der Meer, Veronese, Paolo Veronese, Paola Caliari, Watteau, Jean Antoine Watteau

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