Altarpiece in a sentence

The Ghent altarpiece will eventually return to the cathedral for good.

This work is a side-wing of an altarpiece commissioned by the Welsh-born Sir John Donne, a courtier of Edward IV of England.

The St Michael sculpture, which measures 40 by 20 cm, was one of seven panels created in Midlands workshops for the altarpiece.

A predella of the Altarpiece remains intact in the National Gallery, London which is a superb example of Fra Angelico's ability.

Dhanens (1980), 328 Ghent Altarpiece, detail showing the Virgin Mary The Marian paintings are characterized by complex depictions of both physical space and light sources.

Dürer created large numbers of preparatory drawings, especially for his paintings and engravings, and many survive, most famously the Betende Hände (Praying Hands) from circa 1508, a study for an apostle in the Heller altarpiece.

Ettlinger & Ettlinger:19 His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino.

However the painting was not finished until six years after his death, in 1432, so the degree to which the surviving altarpiece reflects his work, rather than that of Jan who took it over, remains much discussed.

In addition, there are coats of arms connected with the Wittelsbach family with whom he had connections in the Hague, while some of the figures in the miniatures echo the horsemen in the Ghent Altarpiece.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries the inscription on the Ghent Altarpiece was usually taken at face value, and most unsigned works now given to the early years of his brother Jan were attributed to Hubert.

It was originally part of the altarpiece of the church of San Gaggio in Florence.

Jones & Penny:4952 This was a much larger and more important commission than any he had received before; he had only painted one altarpiece in Florence itself.

San Giovenale Triptych (1422) The San Giovenale altarpiece was only discovered in 1961 in the church of San Giovenale at Cascia di Reggello, which is very close to Masaccio's hometown.

The Adoration of the Shepherds (Metropolitan Museum of Art), a free and painterly sketch in gouache, was long considered a preparatory sketch for Madame de Pompadour’s private altarpiece La lumière du monde (ca. 1750, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon).

The Chapel's Renaissance architecture contains a Pietà altarpiece and a striking ceiling of golden suns.

The latter two completed his design for an altarpiece of the Vision of Saint Nicholas ( San Nicola da Tolentino, Rome ) using two separate marble pieces linked together in one event and place, yet successfully separating the divine and earthly spheres.

The lettering on the arched throne above Mary's depiction in the Ghent Altarpiece is taken from a passage from the Book of Wisdom (7:29): "She is more beautiful than the sun and the army of the stars; compared to the light she is superior.

The paintings are two of eight side panels of a large altarpiece painted in 1439 for Fra Angelico's monastery at San Marco, but split up by Napoleon 's army 200 years ago.

Today it is difficult to decide which parts of the altarpiece are by Jan and which by Hubert.

Today the altarpiece is dismantled and the predellas depicting the two final scenes, Entombment and Resurrection were sold to Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in 1923 and 1930.