How to Use altarpiece in a Sentence

altarpiece

noun

• The altarpiece was made around 1434 for the church of Santa Trinità in Florence.
  — Richard Cork, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2018
• Of the twelve panels that comprise the enormous altarpiece, one is still missing.
  — Noah Charney, CNN, 7 June 2017
• On the last day, Daubechies visited the altarpiece at St. Bavo’s Cathedral.
  — New York Times, 14 Sep. 2021
• The main component of the altarpiece is in a difficult-to-access cathedral in Pistoia, Italy.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 3 July 2018
• The chapel is dominated by a Gothic altarpiece that holds a polished-gold statue of the Buddha.
  — Lawrence Osborne, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2021
• Little is known about the painting’s past, but the press release states it was crafted in the late medieval style and probably belonged to a larger altarpiece.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2019
• Restorer Sofia Lobo discovered the bee nests, called cells, while cleaning the 20-foot-tall altarpiece, or reredos.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2020
• That description may sound funny, but the image is not: Davis is dolled-up but defiant, an altarpiece heroine in azure space.
  — Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
• Among them is Duccio’s Maestà, an altarpiece for the cathedral of Siena consisting of more than 40 panels, many of which have been separated or lost.
  — John Hooper, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
• Curators Laura Llewellyn and John Witty surmise that this gorgeous panel was once at the center of a large altarpiece.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
• The church felt like an old barn; only the elaborate altarpiece, made entirely of adobe, revealed its real purpose.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2019
• This exquisite Gothic polyptych – an altarpiece with pivoting panels – was carved in the late 1400s by Veit Stoss.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2023
• At the end of the 19th century, the altarpiece was separated into parts by a saw and eight of the nine resulting panels were sold to different collectors.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2016
• The Rattlestick Theater’s stage is arranged as a lush, fantastical altar — the walls glow orange, while piles of fruit and plants and candles bracket an altarpiece of the Virgin Mary.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2021
• Consider the centuries of ravishing Catholic artworks: medieval altarpieces, Raphael Madonnas, the stained glass at Chartres.
  — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 10 May 2018
• Mimi Lauter’s ebullient pastel works at Blum & Poe play with the format of multipart European altarpieces, creating the effect of a chapel in the large downstairs gallery.
  — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 30 May 2018
• The mummified bee nests were trapped in the altarpiece during restoration work conducted in 1875, five years after a devastating fire damaged parts of the cathedral.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2020
• The show is tightly focused on devotional paintings rather than the altarpieces and larger works at which Bellini also excelled.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Picasso also modeled the shape and size of Les Demoiselles on the altarpiece’s unusual proportions.
  — Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman, Smithsonian, 31 Oct. 2017
• The altarpiece is a mind-blowing polyptych (a many-paneled painting on hinges) that was designed to help people in a medieval hospital endure horrible skin diseases long before the age of painkillers.
  — Rick Steves' Europe, The Seattle Times, 18 July 2017
• Federigo da Montefeltro, the Duke of Urbino and one of the most accomplished military and intellectual leaders of his day, did just that in this altarpiece.
  — WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
• But the two solid panels of music did create an immersive experience, a kind of musical altarpiece – to Schiff.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• From the contemporary lineup, a sparkling, bronze, 1990 Keith Haring altarpiece.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 7 July 2019
• Examining a Bosch altarpiece up close, whether in person or digitally, yields new details with each viewing.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2022
• Jess celebrates the high-minded hedonism of the mid-twentieth-century San Francisco Bay Area avant-garde with a canvas that rivals the enameled richness of a medieval altarpiece.
  — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 26 Mar. 2020
• Jess celebrates the high-minded hedonism of the mid-twentieth-century San Francisco Bay Area avant-garde with a canvas that rivals the enameled richness of a medieval altarpiece.
  — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 10 Mar. 2020
• During the Renaissance, altarpieces were made to tell holy stories, to imbue illiterate churchgoers with narratives and images that held up a moral code and a hierarchy of power.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• This exhibition places key works within a reconstructed altarpiece, part of a selection of 45 paintings, sculptures and works on paper — a welcome return from our recent online virtual void to art in real space.
  — Dallas News, 4 Sep. 2020
• Spanning 89 acres, the open-air museum stems from a collection belonging to Anders Sandvig, a local dentist who collected artifacts, such as altarpieces, tools and old furniture.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
• The Virgin annunciate, usually overshadowed by the altarpiece’s more colorful panels, appears here as a stand-alone masterpiece.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024