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Answer for the clue "Picture often used as an altarpiece ", 8 letters:
triptych

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Triptych (1982–1989) was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. art consisting of a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on three panels (usually hinged together)

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"three-part altar-piece carvings or pictures hinged together," 1849, based on Italian triptica , from tri- "three" on model of diptych .

Usage examples of triptych.

As mere wood-carving the Saas-Fee chapels will not stand comparison, for example, with the triptych of unknown authorship in the Church of St.

The small wooden statues above the triptych, as also those above its modern companion in the south transept, are not less admirable than the triptych itself.

Bass on another, and a box of staples on the third, and the results would make me so sad that between the Beatrice triptych and the Baudelaire triptych I would scarcely stop weeping all day.

For instance, my friend Professor Reed made a triptych for me, and he painted fire on one panel, a typewriter on another, and the face of a beautiful, intelligent woman on the third.

Beatrice: But Elgar Triptych has specifically promised us that no hostilities will be directed at us.

The center shot in the triptych showed Miles Seabrook as a hockey goaliein those old days the goalies wore pads, but the brave face was naked, the eyes clear and challenging, the scar tissue everywhere.

Miles Seabrook, as he was called in the third photo in the triptych, stared back at Jenny Fields in a uniform all too familiar to her.

April 19, 1422, just four days before the date on the San Giovenale Triptych, Masaccio, Filippo, and Donatello all participated in the solemn consecration of the church of Santa Maria del Carmine, located in Florence south of the Arno.

Thaddeus George, had painted a triptych that, when laid side by side, portrayed the entire archipelago, immortalized in oils at a time when everyone had had high hopes for the future.

Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception, which needed a painting for the centerpiece of an altar triptych in their church of San Francesco in Milan.

The picture was replaced by a triptych of bright toylike geometric shapes rotating and counter-rotating in intricate patterns like the mechanism of a transparent clock.

Collins stepped closer to the triptych and clasped his hands at his back.

He walked along, ignoring the triptych of silver partitions that marked the council chamber.

The triptych slid slowly back into place over the now-empty screen, and he stared at it for a moment.

I had never seen any painting from the water lily series in private hands, and here was a glorious canvas, practically as large as the triptych that hangs in the Museum of Modern Art, stretching the length of the wall.