Definitions for altarpieces

altarpieces al·tar·piece

Spelling: [awl-ter-pees]
IPA: /ˈɔl tərˌpis/

Altarpieces is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1590 anagrams from letters in altarpieces (aaceeilprst).

Definitions for altarpieces

noun

  1. a painted or carved screen behind or above the altar or communion table in Christian churches; reredos.

Origin of altarpieces

First recorded in 1635-45; altar + piece

Examples for altarpieces

One is an altarpiece; the Madonna enthroned, with the Divine Child in her arms.

An altarpiece by Giannicola, one of Peruginos pupils, should be noticed.

Pedro Campaas altarpiece, in the Capilla del Mariscal, should be seen.

The oldest Nuremberg picture is said to be an altarpiece in St. Jakobskirche.

In the altarpiece in Berlin he constructs an elaborate cupola above the Virgin, such as Bellini was already using.

He never produced anything more simple and noble or more worthy of the cinque-cento than this altarpiece (now in the Academy).

Köhn was sent to Ghent to find it before the Nazis stole the rest of the altarpiece.

This is an altarpiece painted by Piero della Francesca in about 1470, for a patron in his hometown of Borgo San Sepolcro.

Indeed, the resemblance of Bernardo to the Madonna in the 1480 altarpiece cannot escape the most unscientific observer.

It was the altarpiece of a chapel in the Calle St. Jeronimo.

Word Value for altarpieces
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