Crossword-Solution: ALTARPIECE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Altarpiece | n. | The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ALTARPIECE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A painting or other work of art set above and behind an altar | 1 answer |
| Communion table screen | 1 answer |
| Screen on a sacred stage | 1 answer |
| a work of art that decorates the space above and behind an altar | 1 answer |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ALTARPIECE (5)
The wealth of Syria and Persia was poured out upon the melancholy Wilton carpets; embroidered comets and woven gold from Japan and Teheran depended from and covered over every sad stuff-curtain; a strange medley of sketches, paintings, fans, embroideries, and porcelain was hung, nailed, pinned, or stuck against the wall; finally the domestic altarpiece, the mystical Corot landscape, was hoisted to its place over the parlour fire, and then all was over.
The choir is paved with black and white marble, in which are twenty-eight stalls on the north side, as many on the fourth, and eight at the west end; from the choir we ascend by several steps to a most magnificent marble altarpiece, which would be esteemed a beauty in an Italian church.
The place was empty save of one figure; and she was kneeling here in front of the beautiful altarpiece by Bellini.
The scent of fresh cut flowers floated upon the continual presence of the incense; a lily outlined its head against the tall carved altarpiece the Brothers had brought from Damascus.
The boy who, not many years before, had gazed with agonised sympathy on the altarpiece in the Kreuz Kirche (Church of the Holy Cross), and had yearned with ecstatic fervour to hang upon the Cross in place of the Saviour, had now so far lost his veneration for the clergyman, whose preparatory confirmation classes he attended, as to be quite ready to make fun of him, and even to join with his comrades in withholding part of his class fees, and spending the money in sweets.
Quotes with ALTARPIECE (2)
I ended up going into this big art historical argument.' [Barry Blinderman] invoked, for example, Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim altarpiece, painted in the sixteenth century for a monastery where monks cared for people with skin diseases — so the suffering Christ in that painting shows symptoms of skin disease. 'It’s because he’s the man of sorrows,' Blinderman argued. 'He takes on the suffering of the world. So if Christ were to appear physically today, one of the sicknesses …
Once typecast as the indispensable altarpiece of a well-appointed living room, TVs have infected every human environment. The average American household has more television sets than people.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2021).