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altarpiece

(Also known as a retable). A work of painting or sculpture placed on, above or behind the altar in a Christian church. Web resource here.

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Titian. The Pesaro Altarpiece. Oil on canvas. 1519-26. Sta. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice.

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