Altarpiece

Word ALTARPIECE
Character 10
Hyphenation al tar piece
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Altarpiece"

What do we mean by altarpiece?

A piece of artwork, such as a painting or carving, that is placed above and behind an altar. noun

A decorative screen, retable, or reredos placed behind an altar, considered especially as a work of art. noun

The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos. noun

A work of art suspended above and behind an altar in a church noun

A painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table noun

A work of art suspended above and behind an altar in a church

Synonyms and Antonyms for Altarpiece

The word "altarpiece" in example sentences

The main altarpiece is made of wooden with simple ornaments. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The elegant main altarpiece or retablo, a large triptych, is thought to be the oldest surviving work of its kind in Mexico. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Over the high altar is a baldacchino on columns decorated with eleventh-century reliefs; the altarpiece is the famous Pala d'oro (Golden Pall), Byzantine metal - work of the year 1105, originally designed for an antependium. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Elsewhere, the large-scale painting of a girl-child is installed as a kind of altarpiece, (the above, clearly, is not an installation shot) with a wooden railing surround and shag carpet designed to suggest gradated steps into the shrine ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Deeply inspired by spiritual art, Waronker strives to infuse her work with the same authenticity and emotion as a medieval altarpiece or religious relic. ❋ Bill Bush (2011)

Among them is a masterpiece, My Lai, where real human skulls are embedded into a scumbled painterly surface so poignant as to represent the consummate altarpiece. ❋ Bill Bush (2011)

In this show at the Scuderie del Quirinale, with over 50 works that span the length of Lotto's career and the range of his sacred and secular subject matter, reflections of the north are evident throughout; for instance, in the Gothic architecture of the Virgin's stiffly folded cloak as she appears to two saints in an altarpiece from the Asolo cathedral, and in the cold light that shines on the scene. ❋ Francis X. Rocca (2011)

Titian, circa 1520 The patron, a cleric named Malchiostro, kneels behind the Virgin Mary in Titian's altarpiece right, in the Cathedral of Treviso in northern Italy. ❋ Ellen Gamerman (2011)

Among the visual highlights is an altarpiece by Fra Angelico that depicts St. Nicholas rescuing a sailing vessel. ❋ David Galenson (2011)

It is also striking to note the work was not uniformly Gothic -- as evident by the exuberant Mexican Baroque altarpiece proposed for a Cuban project above, as well as numerous Romanesque, classical and even faintly Plateresque examples. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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