Has there ever been an artwork masterpiece that was a collaboration?

Question

Like a painting?

Answer 1

Most paintings from the Renaissance to the Romantic Period were the product of a whole workshop of apprentices, assistants and painters under the leadership of the Master Painter.

The apprentices would mix the paints, one assistant would paint the backgrounds, another would do the clothes, another the animals, and the Master would paint the faces. Many of those assistants went on to become a Master Painters themselves and started their own workshops.

Just look up how Michelangelo or da Vinci learned the trade.

Or read Vasaro's book "Vite" which contains the biographies of many important Italian Renaissance artists.

And look up Rubens and read how he ran his workshop on a gigantic scale and trained famous Masters like Van Dyck, Jan Brueghel or Frans Snyders.

Answer 2

as people already said, really big peices were sometimes "team efforts", like apprentaces for painters might do peices of fabric while the actual artist does the face and body. I dont really think those count as colaborations though because there is one major artist giving specific orders and a few underlings doing what he says

The only real collaberation between two masters that i can think of would be 'The Pastoral Symphony'...It is widely disputed, but i have heard and read on serveral occasions that it was a colaboration between Giorgone and Titian

Answer 3

Most ceiling paintins are team works, as are most buildings.

Medaeval Cathedrals are probably the most striking examples.