altarpiece

noun

al·tar·piece ˈȯl-tər-ˌpēs

: a work of art that decorates the space above and behind an altar

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The Cathedral of Our Lady, the largest cathedral in Antwerp, houses four Rubens altarpieces, which were painted for this location. —

Nina Siegal, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025 As a lapsed Catholic, I was awed by the brilliance of this altarpiece. —

Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 19 Dec. 2024 About half of the 500 items in the exhibition come from the Brooklyn Museum’s collections, including historic coins, Greek jewelry, Japanese screens and Renaissance altarpieces. —

Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2024 The magnificence of the technology is on full display in a bravura sequence in which Tóth and Van Buren travel to the marble quarries of Carrara, Italy, to select a piece of stone for the altarpiece that will sit in the Institute’s chapel. —

Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for altarpiece