A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 44
peraltar. A jHirtable altar in tiie formof a slab on which the elements may be conse-crated elsewhere than on the altar proper.Being especially consecrated for this service, itwas often laid upon a fixed altar which had notbeen so consecrated. It is sometimes incorrectlyconfounded with the Altar… … ALTAI! riF.CK In the cathedral of Fiesole, Tuscany ; the work he cm tlie rviht, S. Leonard, a Frenchman, ami of Mini) da Kiesole. The .saints who aeconipany one of the early devotee.s who left the world to the .Madonna are generally named, he on the left, devote himself to works of beneficence.S.…
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