A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 186
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 scjine c-itses tulUiwiiig the wallline of the apse, and often attaininj; a iieiglit ofover fifty feet; as a rule, they… … Reredos, Fig. 1: Somerton, Oxfordshire; c. 1400.In this case, as in Fig, 2, the altar has been rnuved, but the reredos keeps its ancient place. Christ, and symbols. The fixed reredos in Italyand France usually formed a fi-ame or settingfor a painting, a bas-relief, or a group of sculp-ture ; in…
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