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‖ ancona2|ænˈkəʊnə| Pl. ancone. [It., = med.L. (Stat. Guild of Painters at Venice, a.d. 1271): etym. uncertain; perh. an alteration of Gr. εἰκόνα, acc. of εἰκών image, icon.] An altar-piece, esp. one consisting of a group of pictures or painted panels connected by architectural structure.
1874R. H. Busk Tirol 146 A priceless work of Alb. Durer, an ‘Ancona’, showing forth in its various compartments the history of the Passion. 1885Athenæum 19 Sept. 377/2 The Van Eycks' ‘Adoration of the Lamb’..[is] a true representative of the Italian ancona or group of pictures included in a single altarpiece. 1887Ibid. 20 Aug. 248/3 The work is neither more nor less than an ancona, which is different in kind as well as in scale from a triptych. ‘Altar-piece’ would be a correct term here, if the author fears to use ‘ancona’. 1903Burlington Mag. I. 309/2 This altarpiece now hangs on the north wall of the choir of the Collegiata. It is a Gothic ancona in which four scenes are represented. 1906H. R. F. Brown tr. Molmenti's Venice, Mid. Ages ii. xii. 123 It is in these ancone, sacred images painted on wood, that we find the origin of Venetian painting. attrib.1900Speaker 28 Apr. 116/1 The ancona form of composition..was characteristic of the old Venetian school. |