ancona

¹ American  

[ahn-kaw-nah, ang-koh-nuh] / ɑnˈkɔ nɑ, æŋˈkoʊ nə /

noun

Italian.

plural

ancone,

plural

anconas

1. an altarpiece, usually consisting of a painted panel or panels, reliefs, or statues set in an elaborate frame.

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Ancona ² American  

[ahn-kaw-nah] / ɑnˈkɔ nɑ /

noun

1. a seaport in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.

2. one of a Mediterranean breed of chickens having mottled black-and-white plumage.

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Ancona British  

/ aŋˈkoːna /

noun

1. a port in central Italy, on the Adriatic, capital of the Marches: founded by Greeks from Syracuse in about 390 _bc . Pop: 100 507 (2001)

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Etymology

Origin of ancona

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

The chapel of San Tarasio in San Zaccaria contains an ancona of which the central panel was only inserted in 1839, and is identical with Lorenzo’s other work.

From The Venetian School of Painting by Phillipps, Evelyn March

It was while completing this picture that the message as to the San Agostino ancona reached Pietro.

From Great Masters in Painting: Perugino by Williamson, George C.

About this period, Allegri painted in the church of the Conventuals, at Coreggio, what is termed an ancona, a small altar-piece in wood, consisting of three pictures.

From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Lanzi, Luigi Antonio

There is an early ancona at La Rocca, near Varallo, another in the parocchia of Gattinara, and possibly a greatly damaged Pieta in the cloisters of Sta.

From Ex Voto by Butler, Samuel

One altar-piece, which is stated to have come from San Agostino, must have, I think, belonged to another altar and had nothing to do with that double ancona.

From Great Masters in Painting: Perugino by Williamson, George C.