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altarpiece (plural altarpieces)

1. a work of art suspended above and behind an altar in a church
   • 2008 December 15, David Samuels, “Atomic John: A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs”, in The New Yorker‎, archived from the original on 2015-03-12:

     I walked across the concrete to examine the altarpiece of the atomic age. A large crack ran through it.

   • 2025 May 7, Nina Siegal, “A Rarely Seen Angel With a Lesson From History”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2025-05-08:

     “It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make new altarpieces. Klee tended to take a very skeptical distance from the sort of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think it’s actually kind of mocking those hopes.”