altarpiece - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • paint: Lochner painted the altarpiece circa 1445 for the high altar of Cologne Cathedral.
  • include: These included altarpieces and narrative scenes, often showing dramatic moments of revelation.

Adjective modifier

  • large: The retable is only part of a much larger altarpiece that probably once stood in the Priory at Thetford in Norfolk.
  • original: Two-thirds of the original altarpiece are now housed in the National Gallery on the Mound.

Noun used with modifier

  • painting: In addition to painting altarpieces and frescoes, he designed much of the inlaid marble floor of Siena Cathedral.

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