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Definition of Predella

Predella
Predella Pre*del"la, n. [It.] The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece.

Meaning of Predella from wikipedia

- In art a predella (plural predelle) is the lowest part of an altarpiece, sometimes forming a platform or step, and the painting or sculpture along it,...
- was commissioned. Various suggestions have been offered, including as a predella for an altarpiece, a free-standing work, or an ornament for a sepulchre...
- The Crucifixion is a panel in the central part of the predella (see image below) of a large altarpiece painted by Andrea Mantegna between 1457 and 1459...
- drawings by him, the predella shows four more scenes from Christ's P****ion: Gethsemane, Last Supper, Arrest and Flagellation. Predella to Lamentation (in...
- latter days were spent in Florence, where he died on May 15, 1461. The predella included panels with scenes of the saints of the main composition, and...
- throughout the painting, some of which are particularly notable in the predella. Naturalistic lighting in both the foreground and the background of the...
- housed in the Ospedale degli Innocenti gallery in Florence, Italy. The predella, painted by Bartolomeo di Giovanni, is in the same site. On 28 October...
- The altarpiece and the predella at the Vatican Pinacotheca. The altarpiece and the left, center and right part of the predella at the Web Gallery of Art...
- crystallized, in the changing colour harmonies of blue and pink. In the predella there are five scenes from Mary's life ( Birth and Marriage, the Visitation...
- Perugia. It was delivered in September 1507. It probably originally had a predella of three small panels (Annunciation, Adoration of the Shepherds and Baptism...