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Definition of Altarpieces

Altarpiece
Altarpiece Al"tar*piece`, n. The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

Meaning of Altarpieces from wikipedia

- larger surfaces. The largest painted altarpieces developed complicated structures, especially winged altarpieces with hinged side wings that folded in...
- the entire altarpiece was covered with whitewash to better suit the taste and ideals of the day. Similarly whitewashed Gothic altarpieces are known also...
- Wittenberg Cranach Altarpiece (or Reformation Altarpiece) is one of the major Lutheran winged altarpieces created by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his son...
- The Ghent Altarpiece, also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (Dutch: De aanbidding van het Lam Gods), is a very large and complex 15th-century polyptych...
- it one of the major Protestant altarpieces of Reformation, made by Cranachs. The painting of the three-winged altarpiece was started by Lucas Cranach the...
- The Isenheim Altarpiece is an altarpiece sculpted and painted by, respectively, the Germans Nikolaus of Haguenau and Matthias Grünewald in 1512–1516....
- The Gotha Altarpiece (or Gotha Table-Altar) is a Lutheran winged altarpiece created between 1538 and 1541 in the Renaissance style by German artist Heinrich...
- The Baronci Altarpiece was a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael. His first recorded commission, it was made for Andrea Baronci's chapel...
- The Třeboň Altarpiece, also known as Wittingau altarpiece, is one of the most important works of European Gothic panel painting. Of the original large...
- from the Virgin Mary. Because most triptych altarpieces are usually kept unopened, the Portinari Altarpiece would have been closed except for special occasions...