Predella
In painting, 'predella' refers to the paintings or sculptures running along the frame at the bottom of an altarpiece. They often consist of narrative scenes, e.g. scenes in the life of a particular saint.
Predella: A subsidiary picture forming an appendage to a larger one, especially a small painting or series or paintings beneath an altarpiece.
Predella : A series of small images or carvings at the base of an altarpiece.
Quadratura : An intended architectural illusion used to create the sense of a larger room.
predella - A decorative frieze or border element running along the front of an altarpiece at the foot usually consisting of several pictures.
refectory - church dining hall ...
predella - In church architecture, the narrow ledge on which an altarpiece rests on an altar.
prehistoric - See Stone Age.
premise - A proposition upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn; a stated assumption.
Predella
On a large altarpiece the lower edge small strip paintings are called "predelle". They were usually only ten to twelve inches high, but they were often quite wide.
Predella of the Griffoni Polyptych: Miracles of St Vincent Ferrer (detail)
Madonna with Child and Saints
Predella of Stories of Christ: 2. Pietà ...
One of the three predella panels for this altarpiece survives and is also in the National Gallery, Saint John the Baptist Preaching, which must have been placed to the left, beneath the figure of the saint.
predella An Italian word for the small strip of paintings which forms the lower edge or socle of a large altarpiece (pala).
Originally it had a predella, too. The St Michael Altarpiece (Asciano, 1330-35) was the central part of a polyptych executed for the Benedictine monastery church established by Guido Tarlati, bishop of Arezzo, in 1319.
The subject is often found on predellas, the small scenes at the base of altarpieces, but this painting is too large to be a predella panel.
The predella is a low, decorated strip intended to raise the main part of the altarpiece to a height where it is readily visible from a distance.
San Marco Altarpiece (Predella: detail of the Crucifixion of Saints Cosmas and Damian)
1438-40
San Marco Altarpiece (Predella: Saints Cosmas and Damian Present their Brothers to the Proconsul Lysias) ...
Adoration of the Magi (from the predella of the Coronation of the Virgin),
Raphael, 1503-1504.
Oil on panel, transferred to canvas
Vaticano, Pinacoteca Apostolica Vaticano, Rome, Italy ...
Altarpieces often have a decorated panel at the bottom called a predella. Some Baroque altarpieces are highly emotional flights of fancy, with painting, sculpture, and architectural accompaniments skillfully interwoven for theatrical effect.
Predella
1 a platform on which an altar stands. 2 lower part of painted altarpiece.
Presbytery
east end of a church, between the choir and High altar; sometimes synonymous with sanctuary.
Pyramid ...
 See also: Painting, Altarpiece, Panel, Sculpture, Renaissance
  
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