altarpiece
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noun
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This altarpiece marks the Italian artist coming into his own at the end of the Renaissance, its vision of Christ after his crucifixion rendered in an expressive, enigmatic style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
St Johns' Almshouse, in Sherborne, Dorset, said it received the shock news after giving the altarpiece to Sotheby's auction house for safekeeping during renovation work.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
The nature of optics, or how the eye sees as light’s conduit, is the focus of an altarpiece fragment by Giotto from the San Diego Museum of Art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
The wings, Israels said, would have been scraped off when the altarpiece was disassembled and the wing fragments would no longer have made sense.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
He’s already thought out the altarpiece, after all.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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