altarpiece
awl ter pees
- n a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table
- The artist who 600 years ago made the altarpiece shown on the opposite page used durable materials, gilded silver, and enamel, as though he hoped that it would last to bedazzle .
- Yet the altarpiece did exactly fit the altar table, and at certain times the afternoon sun would stream through the western rose window to light up the face of the Virgin Mary.
- The Veit Stoss altarpiece a 15th century three-story wooden altarpiece and Polish national treasure was in a tunnel in Nuremburg.