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Definition of Antependia
1. antependium [n] - See also: antependium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antependia
Literary usage of Antependia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In the museum of Rejkjavik are to be found handsome crucifixes, statues, antependia,
etc., which recall the Catholic past. Schools, properly so called, ..."
2. Painting Popularly Explained: Including Fresco, Water-glass, Oil, Tempera by Thomas John Gullick, John Timbs (1864)
"... RETABLES, antependia, ETC. The art of the Middle Ages had a specific use.
Artists did not •paint, as now, on speculation. The uses to which the tabular ..."
3. History of Ancient, Early Christian, and Mediaeval Painting by Karl Woermann (1894)
"... of S. Michael's Church, Hildesheim—Introduction of painted panels or antependia
for altar-fronts—Examples from Soest, Liin, Worms, and Cologne. ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"antependia were also made of costly clothe with gold and silver embroidery, and
mosaics and reliefs were built into the sides of the altar. ..."
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