A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 185
have hidden the priest from the people;nevertheless, there is no reiisou to suppose that REREDOS ciUoriuni. During the later Middle Ages thishanging reredos was changed with every changeof the sacerdotal vestments, so as to conform totiie colour requirements of the various castes.When this form… … Renaissaxce Architecture, Fig. 6: House at Amiens, l.jiiS; see Fig. it was not employed at a verj much earlier pe-riod with side or secondary altars, and with thealtar of an oratory. The earliest form of thereredos, outside of those in the catacombs andcrypts, was probably that of the dossal, a…
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