1) Art for the masses 2) Communion table screen 3) Reredos 4) Screen
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1) Reredos
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An altarpiece is a piece of art such as a painting, sculpture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a Christian church. Altarpieces were one of the most important products of Christian art especially from the late Middle Ages to the era of the Counter Reformation. ==History== ===Origins and early d...
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• (n.) The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.
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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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An individual or group of panels or screens located near or on the altar.
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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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A decorated screen, panel or series of panels, fixed or movable, placed on or behind the altar. Norm
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Al'tar·piece` noun The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.
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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 simple type consists of a central panel with two ...
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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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n] - a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table
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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 but related scenes. Modern artists have sometimes...
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reredos noun a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table
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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) are fixed. A typical Italian altarpiece h...
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a painted or carved screen behind or above the altar or communion table in Christian churches; reredos.
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