Altarpiece

Definitions

a work of art suspended above and behind an altar in a church

Equivalents

Examples

“I walked across the concrete to examine⟳ the altarpiece of the atomic age. A large crack ran through it.”

““It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make⟳ new altarpieces. Klee tended to take⟳ a very skeptical distance from the sort⟳ of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think⟳ it’s actually kind of mocking those hopes.””

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