altar-piece

Why do I suddenly see a Prada-knockoff becoming a temporary altar-piece this week.. *chuckles*

Asherah Wednesday Again! Anne Johnson 2009

Wine-Crucifix was originally painted as an altar-piece for the Student Chapel of the Catholic University in Graz, Austria at the instigation of Monsignor Otto Mauer.

Weinkruzifix 2009

Wine-Crucifix was originally painted as an altar-piece for the Student Chapel of the Catholic University in Graz, Austria at the instigation of Monsignor Otto Mauer.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

The altar-piece, by Andrea Sacchi, in the church of

Travels through France and Italy 2004

Will the film become the altar-piece in some new multimedia shrine?

Philocrites: February 2004 Archives 2004

Will the film become the altar-piece in some new multimedia shrine?

Philocrites: That 14th-century religion. 2004

In the same way, a collector who is shown the wing of an altar screen, remembers the church or museum or private collection in which the others are dispersed (as also, by following sale-catalogues or searching among dealers in antiques, he finally discovers the twin object to the one he possesses which makes them a pair and thus can mentally reconstitute the predella and the entire altar-piece).

Time Regained 2003

Visitors to St. Mark's in Venice, overawed by the Byzantine solemnity of the architectural space, bemused by the shimmering mosaics, and dazzled by the enamels and gems on the opulent twelfth - to fourteenth-century Palo d'Oro — the great high altar-piece — rarely pay much attention to later works of art in the church.

The Master Builder of Venice Honour, Hugh 1992

The superior of the monastery, hearing of his skill as a painter, requested him to execute an altar-piece for the convent chapel.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

Our little Agnes, therefore, when she had spread all her garlands out, seemed really to feel as if the girlish figure that smiled in sacred white from the altar-piece was a dear friend who smiled upon her, and was watching to lead her up the path to heaven.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various