PREDELLA

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PREDELLA , the

Italian

ITALIAN

word for a footstool or kneeling-

stool

STOOL

, hence applied to the step or platform on which an

altar

ALTAR (Lat. altare, from
alias
- ALIAS (Lat. for " at another
  time
  - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the
    root
    - ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
    - ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
    also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
  - TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
  - TIME, STANDARD
  ")
, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

rests, and to a shelf raised above the

altar

ALTAR (Lat. altare, from
alias
- ALIAS (Lat. for " at another
  time
  - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the
    root
    - ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
    - ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
    also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
  - TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
  - TIME, STANDARD
  ")
, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

at the back, a super-altar or gradino. The

face

FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

both of the step and shelf are frequently decorated with sculpture or

painting

PAINTING

, and the

term

TERM

" predella " is frequently given to the sculpture or

painting

PAINTING

so used, and, further, to any painting that is a pendant to a larger

work

WORK

.

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