This is the image-bearing object which is placed upon an altar in a Christian church. Altarpieces usually form the focus of devotion for worshippers and are normally decorated by painters and/or sculp [..]

An altarpiece is a painting placed on or behind the altar of a Christian church as a focus for worship

(n) a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table

A picture or sculpture that stands on or is set up behind an altar. The term reredos is used for an ornamental screen or partition, not directly attached to the altar table but affixed to the wall beh [..]

Religious-theme artwork, it refers to carved or painted panels and statuary or sculpture that is placed on or behind the altar of a place of worship. During the Renaissance, an altarpiece was typicall [..]

Artwork including a painting and carved or painted panels and statuary that is placed on or behind the altar of a place of worship. The subject is usually religious genre or figures. During the Renais [..]

Any of a variety of decorated panels-often gilded in gold leaf- screens or shrines rising behind an altar to signify its importance and authority, to tell an associated legend and so on. The most comm [..]

a painting or relief placed above or behind the altar in a church

a devotional work of art placed behind or above a Christian altar (examples: Masaccio's Trinity, Michelangelo's Pieta, Titian's Pesaro Madonna, Bernini's St. Teresa).

Painting, woodcut or sculpture behind the altar in a church or chapel. Usually part of the retable. It often consists of more than one panel: three (triptych) or more (polyptych). Famous altarpieces: [..]

A picture or sculpture that stands on or is set up behind an altar. The term reredos is used for an ornamental screen or partition, not directly attached to the altar table but affixed to the wall beh [..]

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. '' — ''Atomic John: A [..]