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altarpiece
[ awl-ter-pees ]
noun
- a painted or carved screen behind or above the altar or communion table in Christian churches; reredos.
altarpiece
/ ˈɔːltəˌpiːs /
noun
- a work of art set above and behind an altar; a reredos
Word History and Origins
Origin of altarpiece1
Example Sentences
Köhn was sent to Ghent to find it before the Nazis stole the rest of the altarpiece.
The two Nazi leaders actually raced one another to be the first to steal the altarpiece.
Why did Hitler crave the missing panel in the famous Ghent Altarpiece?
They surely had designs on seizing the entire altarpiece, and did not wish it to be incomplete when they did so.
The Treaty of Versailles mentioned only four works of cultural heritage, foremost among them The Ghent Altarpiece.
He died at Bocairente (near Jativa) while engaged upon an altarpiece in the church there, on the 21st of December 1579.
It once formed part of an altarpiece at S. Severino, long since broken up and dispersed.
Detail of marble altarpiece in alto relievo in cathedral of Fiesole, being a part of the monument of Bishop Salutati.
Its tower and chapel are Grecian, and the chapel has a most beautiful carved screen and altarpiece.
To a later period belong only the organ with Sienas wolf, which is a work of the early Cinquecento, and the altarpiece.
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