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Meanings of reredos in English
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Examples for "altarpiece"
Examples for "altarpiece"
1
It was the altarpiece of a chapel in the Calle St. Jeronimo.
2
In Rome, Rubens won the plum commission of the Santa Maria altarpiece.
3
On reaching the temple, they all sat down facing a carved altarpiece.
4
Christ, Laestadius and the Sami maiden Maria glow from the altarpiece, unblemished.
5
Of particular merit are the fine tapestries and the altarpiece of Venetian mosaics.
Usage of reredos in English
1
The reredos is of red-stained alabaster, coloured marble, and mosaics by Salviati.
2
When these were removed an ancient painted reredos was found behind them.
3
The magnificent reredos was erected by Cardinal Beaufort; it is, of course, restored.
4
At the back of the reredos is a brass to Mr. Bailey, M.P.
5
We have put up a reredos in our chapel at Bradley.
6
At San Juan Bautista the old reredos remains, though the altar is new.
7
The side aisles do not extend beyond the reredos arch.
8
It is on the south side of the reredos, Gardiner's being on the north.
9
The beautiful stone reredos is at present empty of figures.
10
The reredos is alabaster, I believe, and we had nobody fit to undertake that.
11
The new "reredos," or altar screen, is one marvelous crystallization of sculptures.
12
Behind the reredos are the chantries of Bishop Waynflete and of the great Cardinal Beaufort.
13
The reredos and its surroundings are like every other.
14
The reredos, made of terra-cotta and wood, was designed by Street, the figures by Tinworth.
15
The altar, as also the statues of Joseph and Mary, had a reredos handsomely carved.
16
There should be a stone altar and a reredos.
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