What does altarpiece mean?
Altarpiece means a work of art suspended above and behind an altar in a church.
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/ˈɑl.təɹˌpis/ · noun
a work of art suspended above and behind an altar in a church.
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.”
Use altarpiece when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Altarpiece means a work of art suspended above and behind an altar in a church.
Common synonyms include reredos.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I walked across the concrete to examine the altarpiece of the atomic age. A large crack ran through it.
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