predellas

There are other rich allusions to Renaissance art, such as the lower-level panels in grisaille, suggestive of Mantegna's altarpiece predellas.

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The predellas with which he loved to embellish his work are almost invariably charming works in themselves, the predella often better than the picture.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Beneath, are little basreliefs representing scenes from their respective lives, in the style of carved predellas on the altars of saints.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

Beneath, are little basreliefs representing scenes from their respective lives, in the style of carved predellas on the altars of saints.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

_Sacraments_, including the predellas, friezes, and side borders, have been photographed in large and smaller sizes by Albert, Munich, and from the photographs August Gaber executed woodcuts, published with explanatory text penned by Overbeck.

Overbeck J. Beavington Atkinson 1854

These pictures are all on wood, and seem to have been taken from the shrines and altars of ancient churches; they are predellas and triptychs, or pictures on three folding tablets, shaped quaintly, in Gothic peaks or arches, and still gleaming with backgrounds of antique gold.

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

These pictures are all on wood, and seem to have been taken from the shrines and altars of ancient churches; they are predellas and triptychs, or pictures on three folding tablets, shaped quaintly, in Gothic peaks or arches, and still gleaming with backgrounds of antique gold.

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Below each of the big landscapes, six small mixed-media paintings present what in the history of art and altarpieces are called predellas.

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