What's the difference between altarpiece and reredos?
Altarpiece
Definition:
(n.) The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conrad von Soest depicted an apostle in reading glasses in the Niederwildungen Altarpiece in 1403, and there are mentions of the use of eyeglasses dating back to antiquity.
(2) In fact, the Ghent altarpiece and the Madonna were recovered at leisure from the Altaussee salt mine, not bundled away in a panic.
(3) Belgian monks hide their altarpieces, a swastika flag flutters in front of the Eiffel Tower, and Adolf Hitler is pilfering art from all over Europe to build a collection for his planned Führermuseum .
(4) Hence the Soviets, complete with a commander whose job it seems to be to stand around looking like the kind of guy who really, really wants to steal himself a 15th-century Flemish polyptych altarpiece.
(5) Many of these, including such treasures as Titian's Danae and Van Eyck's Ghent altarpiece , were found stashed in mountain tunnels and mines.
(6) Sixteen canvases have travelled to London, while Spencer's altarpiece – Resurrection of the Soldiers – which is fixed in place, is shown as a projection.
(7) Tension Finally, the monuments men must rush to liberate Jan and Hubert van Eyck's Ghent altarpiece and Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges from a mine before the Soviets arrive and nick all the art for themselves.
(8) We even made a David Hockney altarpiece called Our David.
(9) Check out the El Greco Museum, the only one in the country dedicated to the painter, but also take in an early masterpiece and the painter’s simple wooden tomb in the monastery of Santo Domingo el Antiguo, in the furthest reaches of the old town, and the great El Greco altarpiece of 1577, fresh from restoration, in the cathedral’s sacristy.
(10) As well as letters and ledgers from the time, the new exhibition shows what the National Gallery squandered by recreating the Liesborn altarpiece with works it still owns from the altarpiece along with photos of some of those it sold.
(11) That resulted in an act of parliament permitting their deaccession and 37 were sold, including most of an altarpiece from the Benedictine abbey of Liesborn in Germany .
Reredos
Definition:
(n.) A screen or partition wall behind an altar.
(n.) The back of a fireplace.
(n.) The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls.