1) Altar screen 2) Altarpiece 3) Choir screen 4) Church screen 5) Decoration behind an altar 6) Decorative altar screen 7) Ornamental altar screens 8) Ornamental screen 9) Screen 10) Screen behind a church altar
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1) Altarpiece 2) Screen
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A reredos or raredos is an altarpiece, or a screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images. In French and sometimes in English, this is called a retable; in Spanish a retablo, etc. It can be made of stone, wood, metal, ivory, or a combination of materials. The images may be painted, carved, gil...
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screen behind altar
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• (n.) The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls. • (n.) A screen or partition wall behind an altar. • (n.) The back of a fireplace.
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An elaborate wall carving or screen utilized primarily on or behind the high Altar.
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a decorative screen behind the altar, usually highly carved.
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(from the article `altarpiece`) ...more panels. A winged altarpiece is one equipped with movable wings that can be opened or closed over a fixed central part, thereby allowing ...
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a decorative (usually painted or sculpted) screen behind an altar
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In church architecture, an ornamented wall or screen at the back of the high altar. It usually consists of a screen detached from the wall, and is elaborately adorned with sculpture and tracery or...
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a decorative screen situated to the rear of the altar. See Church Design.
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A screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually containing religious images. Often painted wood, but may be carved, gilded, etc. Sometimes a tapestry, or other fabric is used.
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In a church, the ornamental screen behind the altar.
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A screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually containing religious images. Often painted wood, but may be carved, gilded, etc. Sometimes a tapestry, or other fabric is used.
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See fireback.
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Rere'dos noun [ From
rear + French
dos back, Latin
dorsum . Confer
Dorsal .]
(Architecture) (a) A screen or partition wall behind an altar.
(b) The back of a fireplace.
(c) The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under th...
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In architecture the term reredos refers to a number of things: a screen or partition wall behind an altar (altarpiece); the back of a fireplace; the open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louvre, in the centre of ancient halls. For more than 1000 years the episcopal seats and choir stalls were in line with the altar wall;...
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The screen behind an altar, usually richly treated in stone.
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