Difference between Reredos and Altarpiece

REREDOS vs ALTARPIECE: NOUN

A screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images.
The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls.
The back of a fireplace.
A screen or partition wall behind an altar.
In medieval armor, same as backpiece.
A screen or a decorated part of the wall behind an altar in a church, especially when the altar does not stand free, but against the wall; an altarpiece. Compare altarpiece and retable.
In architecture, the back of a fireplace, or of an open fire-hearth, as commonly used in domestic halls of medieval times and the Renaissance; the iron plate often forming the back of a fireplace in which andirons are used.
The back of an open hearth of a fireplace.
A decorative screen or facing on the wall at the back of an altar.
A painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table

A work of art suspended above and behind an altar in a church
The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.
A decorative screen, retable, or reredos placed behind an altar, considered especially as a work of art.
A piece of artwork, such as a painting or carving, that is placed above and behind an altar.
A painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table

Newel post, Polychrome, Tympanum, Entablature, Fanlight, Plasterwork, Gothic arch, Tracery, Apse, Clerestory, Chancel, Transept, Iconostasis, Rood screen, Altarpiece

Bernini, Nave, Polychrome, Transept, Basilica, Apse, Diptych, Cathedral, Reliquary, Rood screen, Ecce homo, Fresco, Triptych, Iconostasis, Reredos

Newel post, Polychrome, Tympanum, Entablature, Fanlight, Plasterwork, Gothic arch, Tracery, Apse, Clerestory, Chancel, Transept, Iconostasis, Rood screen, Altarpiece

Bernini, Nave, Polychrome, Transept, Basilica, Apse, Diptych, Cathedral, Reliquary, Rood screen, Ecce homo, Fresco, Triptych, Iconostasis, Reredos

The centre of this reredos shows the figure of Jesus talking to his disciples and accompanied by Moses and Elijah.
Every morning the Episcopalian Clergy gathered for communion before a copy of the massive reredos of Saint Lorenz Nuremburg.
At Bampton, Oxfordshire, a very perfect reredos remains in the east wall of the north transept, where an altar has stood.
The reredos in Chapel depicts the Last Supper as envisaged by Leonardo da Vinci.
Carved and decorated wooden screens and reredos remain from the 13th century onwards.
Colonel Clapham, of Manchester, had consented to provide new wings to the reredos.
Christmas colors of the reredos behind the altar.
Florence, and an alabaster reredos, of which the central panels were designed by Mr.

The Closed altarpiece depicts four saints venerated in the church.
Ghent Altarpiece, and it would be interesting to compare the two works of art.
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English painter of ecclesiastical works such as the altarpiece at St.
WITZ, KONRAD his altarpiece for the high altar of St.
Bartholomew with knife, fragment of a late medieval altarpiece.
Predella of the San Domenico Altarpiece at Fiesole, ca.
Nerli altarpiece in Santo Spirito, by the same artist.