A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 181
f use,fixed ones taking its place, even in conjunctionwith the high altars of cathedrals. Thesereached their finest development in Spain, manyof them extending across the entire east end of280 RESIDENCE the sanctuary, in some cases tiiUowing the wallline of the apse, and often attaining a lieiglit… … Kbredos, Fig. 1: Somerton, Oxfordshire; c. 1400. In this case, as in Fig. 2, the altar has been moved, but the reredos keeps its ancient place. Christ, and symbols. The fi.xed reredos in Italyand France usually formed a frame or settingfor a painting, a bas-relief, or a group of sculp-ture ; in…
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