Antique Altar

One of his murals, 50 feet long, was installed at the altar of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Forest Park.

Actually one of the photos also shows roof and wall damage behind the high altar at the back end of the nave resulting from the first bomb that hit the church while the chandeliers w...

Mounted on the top of the clock a winged cupid with roses in his hair sits before the altar of everlasting love with a butterfly in his hand and his bow, quiver and flame of love aro...

One of the frieze mounts depicts a nymph, a youth and a satyr in playful embrace whilst the other depicts a putto in an attempt to prevent a goat from reaching a vine above a smoulde...

The large three-week going movement strikes the half- and full hours. This veil-draped ’altar’ clock is dedicated to Venus and celebrates Love’s dominion.

This set of carved marble pricket candlesticks might have been used as altar sticks for a church but could easily also have been made for a private house that had marble details and ...

Among the numerous motifs comparable to those of other miniatures by Francesco da Castello, the small medallions with the Evangelists barely outlined on a golden background, closely ...

Throughout Edo and Meiji period, Oshi-E were sometimes used to make offerings to the altars in the temple and in the late 19th century, it was exported to the west along with the oth...

Recently uncovered in a palazzo near Todi in Umbria (see photograph of them hanging in situ) however we believe them to have originally been used as church altar board panels. Size ...

It is quite possible that the present relief plaque was created to be part of an altar in a church even if it is not decorated with a religious theme (note that the theme of "winged ...

Italy, 19th century, almost certainly Rome, exceptionally executed in timeless Greco-Roman classical taste, with nods to Holy Roman Empire church tabernacle stands and altar tables, ...

Among his other works, we can mention Napoleon awakening to immortality (1845-1845, Musée d'Orsay, Paris), the statue of the mathematician Gaspard Monge (1848), Joan of Arc, in the L...

Small panels of glass with designs formed by engraved gilding were applied to reliquaries and portable altars. The method used is described by Cennino Cennini.

Above, a superb inset plaque of Psyche and Cupid embracing close to a classical altar among flowers and butterflies. The circular dial with the 12 zodiac astrological signs next to R...

Most of the known monumental sculpture—colossal heads, altars or thrones, stelae, and other stone-carved monuments—was found in that region.

Statues of these three Gods are still found on the facades of folk religion's temples, and Asian altars, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan ancestral shrines.

In the lot, four views of events and statues in Japanese shrines: an altar, the colossal statue of Kamakura, a Buddha carved in granite and a view of the "sacred bull" event in Kyoto.

This altar piece made of nine copper panels has been destroyed during the 19th century.

This Buddhist–Confucian custom has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people return to ancestral family places and visit and clean their ancestors' graves when the sp...

This Buddhist–Confucian custom has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people return to ancestral family places and visit and clean their ancestors' graves when the sp...

He worked on a large scale and decorated altars, friezes, walls, and mantels in churches and private homes.

Among the interventions made by him we remember in particular the restoration of the three panels by Giorgio Vasari representing "The Immaculate Conception", "Sant'Eustachio" and "Sa...

She knelt until the shades grew dim without, Till one by one the altar lights shone out, Till one by one the Nuns, like shadows dim, Gathered around to chant their vesper hymn; Her v...

The painting of San Lorenzo follows a common composition in the Spanish school, and would recall works such as the painting of the main altar of the Church of San Lorenzo de Huesca, ...

It is also no coincidence that the main altar was bathed in light. It was the place where the most important sacrament was celebrated, that of the Eucharist.

Title : Altra veduta del medesimo in prospettiva, fra una lampada e un piccolo vaso in bronzo Artist proof, with a good contrast and sharp details, printed on antique laid paper, lar...

This painting, which is just behind the altar of the Sistine Chapel was done in the early 1500s.

But, above all, we must compare it with a sanctuary door that is kept in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid and with the door of the tabernacle of the main altar of the Parish Chur...

The central jasperware plaque signed Wedgwood, ornamented with an applied molded relief of 'L'Amour Comédien': Cupid masked in front of two women receiving offerings at the sacrifici...

Throughout Edo and Meiji period, Oshi-E were sometimes used to make offerings to the altars in the temple and in the late 19th century, it was exported to the west along with the oth...

It is sensible smaller details, like an altar cross, could have fallen under his responsibility (see for example British Museum, Inv. 1859,0625.552).

In 1899, for the main altar of the chapel of St. Luke in the Korcula town cemetery, Brandeis painted a St.

He also created various religious paintings and an altar-piece in the Cowgate Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, and easel pictures of Cymon and Iphigenia, Sigismunda Weeping over the Hear...

He also created various religious paintings and an altar-piece in the Cowgate Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, and easel pictures of Cymon and Iphigenia, Sigismunda Weeping over the Hear...

There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern s...

There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern s...

There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern s...

There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern s...

There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern s...

There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern s...

There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern s...

There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern s...

There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern s...

There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern s...

There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern s...

There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern s...

There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern s...

For this reason, it was surely conceived for an altar or private chapel. It presents a great breaking of central Glory, delimited by cumulus clouds among which the heads of cherubs a...

There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern s...

Adalbert of Prague and St Hyacinth Odrowaz, was painted for the high altar of San Stanislao dei Polacchi. Characterized by Giulio Mancini as most zealous in his profession, Antivedut...

This lacquered 18th century Edo period altar table was probably made for the private shrine of an aristocratic home.

In the 1904 photo above shows it in place (in extreme upper left corner) at the High Altar before removal. Provenance: From the High Altar of St.

Ancient form rejuvenated with frieze of cherubs acting out rites of Classical life from sacrificing at the altar to being borne in triumph in goat-harnessed chariot.

He was succeeded by his niece Victoria, who was the daughter of the Duke of Kent, another middle-aged bridegroom who showed up at the altar under duress. Engraved on underside “H. B.

On 14 September 1833, Raphael’s sarcophagus beneath the altar of the Madonna del Sasso was opened on the orders of Pope Gregory XVI in order to confirm that the artist was truly buri...

As shown on this intaglio, Scaevola demonstrated his courage by holding his right hand in a blazing altar fire lit for sacrifice which granted him his freedom and brought peace offer...

He also collaborated with the celebrated architect Baldassare Longhena, most famously for the high altar of Santa Maria della Salute, where he carved the multi-figured altarpiece dep...

His identity was first established by Maria Teresa Filieri in a 1995 article publishing documentation of his authorship of the high altar of the church of San Quirico in the village ...

The tower was rent from the top to the bottom; the north dial of the clock precipitated to the ground with a dreadful crash; the east parapet wall of the tower thrown upon the roof o...

A Qing Dynasty period red and black lacquered altar coffer table from the 19th century, with figural and floral motifs, everted flanges and carved legs.