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Historical Archive: Altars See also images of altars. house shrine: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, 3 daughters, limestone, c.1345 BCE, SMB EgMP ÄM 14145, which has its own page altar from Semirechye (Zhetysu), Kazakhstan, cast bronze 125 cm wide, Sakae culture 5th-3rd c. BCE, Hermitage СА-13760. For details see Hermitage. funerary altar of Julia Victorina from Rome, marble, 75-100 CE, Louvre altar dedicated to 'the best and greatest Jupiter, for the welfare of the emperors', Dunapentele (Hungary) 213 CE, HNM 137.1874.6. For frontal view and detail see HNM. altar table, marble (restored left), late 5th c.-c.550; MAN19589, 20300, 20580 et 90966. For detail see MAN. Altar: center structure prob. 6th c. with bronze door 1784, large marble table 1573, in Ravenna, Orthodox baptistery, which has its own pages. altar revetment: Sion treasure, c.550-75, silver, which has its own page Arnulf Ciborium, gold, c.890, Munich Residenz, Schatzkammer. This object has its own page. Magdeburg Antependium: multiplication loaves/fishes ivory, Milan c.968, Louvre OA 6301. Panels from this antependium have their own page. Basel antependium, gold and gems on wood, early 11th c., Cluny Cl. 2350. This work has its own page. gold altar frontal, early 11th c., Aachen cathedral. The altar and cathedral have their own pages. Portable altar of Countess Gertrude, c.1045, CMA 1931.462. This object has its own page. domestic altar? Frøslev reliquary, copper/enamel, c.1100-50, NMD D751, which has its own page portable altar of Henry II of Werl, Roger of Helmarshausen c.1105 or 1120-27, DMP DS2, which has its own page Abdinghof portable altar, 1115-30, DMP PR50, which has its own page Lisbjerg Altar frontal/retable/arch c.1135-50, gilded copper, NMD D287. This work has its own page. Apostles retable (Crosby relief), c.1150, in Chapel of St. Osmana, Saint-Denis basilica Stavelot altar, gilt bronze with enamel and rock crystal, c.1150-60, MRAH 1590. This work has its own page. Rødding altar, granite, c.1150-1200, NMD D843, which has its own page St. Eustace retable, 13th c., Chapel of St. Maurice, Saint-Denis basilica early 13th-c. altar, Naumburg cathedral crypt, which has its own page Nedstryn altar frontal, painted pine 1300-25, Bergen MA 1, which has its own page altar table c.1340-48, Cappella Strozzi di Mantova, Florence, which has its own page retable in Naumburg Marienkirche, c.1350-75, which has its own page with detail Karlstejn Castle, Chapel of the Holy Cross c.1360-65, which has its own page Baptistery, cathedral of Padua, 1376 frescoes: Giusto de' Menabuoi. This work has its own pages. St. Olav triumphant over paganism, oak w. polychromy, altar dossal fr. Austevoll c.1425-50, Bergen MA 284. For other views see Bergen. altar of St. Sebastian, 1450, Sion, Valère basilica, which has its own interior page with additional views Andrea Cavalcanti (il Buggiano), Cardini (Trinity) chapel, 1453-58, San Francesco, Pescia, which has its own page oak altarpiece 1500-25, St. Michael's, Hildesheim, which has its own pages altar of Mary 1519: Kloster Wienhausen nuns' choir, which has its own page altar 1564-77, Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, San Francesco, Pescia, which has its own page on right Buonvincini altar 1577, San Francesco, Pescia, which has its own page on left Jacopo Ligozzi, 1595 Martyrdom of St. Dorothy, San Francesco, Pescia, which has its own page main altar and Ceva memorials, 1673-99: F Borromini et al., Lateran Baptistery, Rome, Chapel of St. Vanantius. This chapel has its own interior page. altar of St. Anthony the Great, 1683, Sion Cathedral. This building has its own page. on right Baroque St. Barbara altar, Hildesheim Cathedral, which has its own interior page altar, Kloster Wienhausen/parish church, expanded and reworked 1701-05, which has its own page baldachin of high altar, Servandoni 1742, Sens cathedral, which has its own interior page. Sens cathedral chevet to east, apse illuminated for Mass high altar and Assumption of the Virgin, Charles-Antoine Bridan, 1763-73, marble. For more views see Chartres interior. 1900 altar with relics of St. Augustine, San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, Pavia, which has its own page. modern altar: Canterbury cathedral, which has its own interior page with more altars. movable wooden altar and lectern 1992, San Francesco, Pescia, which has its own page altar frontal and retable panels: design Leo Childs 1994, embroidered by Cathedral Broderers, Durham Cathedral, which has its own pages altar: Jørn Larsen 2000, Jelling, which has its own page front: Giuliano Vangi altar 2001, int. Pisa cathedral, which has its own pages Ulrich Rückriem, dolomite altar complete by 2014, Hildesheim Cathedral, which has its own interior page