Look up: Altar-piece


  1. Altar-piece
    A piece of art placed on the wall behind the altar (see Reredos) In the 18th century, these took the form of large classical-style screens.
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  2. Altarpiece
    In Christian church architecture, an altarpiece is a picture, carved decoration, or decorated screen behind and above an altar. The term reredos is also sometimes used to describe an altarpiece.
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  3. altarpiece
    [n] - a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table
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  4. Altarpiece
    Painting placed on or behind the altar of a Christian church as a focus for worship. Usually depicts scenes from the life of Christ, especially the Crucifixion, or from the life of the Virgin Mary. Altarpieces are often in two or three panels (diptychs and triptychs) with the panels showing separate...
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  5. Altarpiece
    Al'tar·piece` noun The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/63

  6. altarpiece
    reredos noun a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table
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  7. Altarpiece
    • (n.) The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/altarpiece/



  1. altarpiece
    a work of art that decorates the space above and behind the altar in a Christian church. Painting, relief, and sculpture in the round have all been ... [7 related articles]
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  2. Altarpiece
    An altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church. The altarpiece is often made up of two or more separate panels created using a technique known as panel painting. It is then called a diptych, triptych or polyptych for two, ...
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  3. Altarpiece
    An individual or group of panels or screens located near or on the altar.
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  4. altarpiece
    A painting (more rarely a sculpture) placed on, behind, or above an altar in a Christian church. Altarpieces vary greatly in size, construction, and number of images (diptych, triptych, and polyptych). Some are small and portable; some (known as a retable or reredos – there is no clear distinction...
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  5. Altarpiece
    Any of a variety of decorated panels-often gilded in gold leaf- screens or shrines rising behind an altar to signify its importance and authority, to tell an associated legend and so on. The most common type of altarpiece is a painting spread over several panels hung together like folding screens. A...
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  6. altarpiece
    Painting, woodcut or sculpture behind the altar in a church or chapel. Usually part of the retable. It often consists of more than one panel: three (triptych) or more (polyptych).
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  7. altarpiece
    1) Reredos 2) Screen
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/altarpiece/1

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