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PREDELLA

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 275 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PREDELLA , the See also:

Italian word for a footstool or kneeling-See also:stool, hence applied to the step or See also:platform on which an See also:altar rests, and to a shelf raised above the altar at the back, a super-altar or gradino. The See also:face both of the step and shelf are frequently decorated with See also:sculpture or See also:painting, and the See also:term " predella " is frequently given to the sculpture or painting so used, and, further, to any painting that is a See also:pendant to a larger See also:work.

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