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predella|prɪˈdɛlə|
Also erron. prædella.
[a. It. predella (preˈdella) a stool, footstool, kneeling-stool; prob. f. OHG. pret a board + -ella, dim. suffix.]
1. The step or platform upon which an altar is placed, an altar-step, foot-pace; also, a painting or sculpture upon the vertical face of this.
1853Dale tr. Baldeschi's Ceremonial 6 All should communicate upon the edge of the predella. 1857G. J. Wigley Borromeo's Inst. Eccl. Build. xi. §2. 26 note, The highest or the only step of an altar is..the Predella..the name used for this platform in all works on church ceremonies. 1873Susan & Jo. Horner Walks Florence (1884) I. xxiv. 353 In the..predella of small figures below the altar, a priest holds up the chalice. 1926Trans. Scottish Ecclesiol. Soc. VIII. ii. 71 The sanctuary is, perforce, very small and the Holy Table..is placed directly against the wall... The single step Prædella is semi-circular, and is enclosed by a beautiful tudor rail.
2. A raised shelf at the back of an altar; also (more usually) a piece of painting or sculpture on the front of such a shelf, forming an appendage to the altar-piece above it: = gradino.
1848A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850) 101 In a small and very curious picture which I saw at Rome, forming part of a Predella. 1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 307 The ‘predella’ or gradus was the wooden base on which the altar-piece rested, and to which it was attached. 1873Susan & Jo. Horner Walks Florence (1884) II. i. 2 This picture formed the predella, or lower part of an altar-piece.
b. Extended to a subsidiary painting forming a similar appendage to any picture.
1882W. Sharp D. G. Rossetti 252 There is a very fine predella, or lower partition, attached to the picture, which [predella] is divided by two crossbars of the frame into three divisions. 1902Union Mag. Nov. 502/1 The picture is finished with a predella consisting of a kind of Dominican tree.
c. attrib., as predella panel, predella picture.
1884American VIII. 202 The collection has also a small Raphael predella panel. 1884Athenæum 21 June 796 The nuns of St. Anthony of Padua..sold the fine predella pictures to Christina of Sweden. |