| The entire piece is supported by a predella on the altar, which raises the retable from the altar table. |
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| While the main panel of the altarpiece portrays a story of communal inclusion, the predella bears a story of social exclusion. |
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| Yet, being multipartite, they call to mind the predella panels of early Renaissance altarpieces. |
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| The raised central platform or predella has the ambo at one end and the altar at the other. |
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| The total painted surface of all the panels is over fifty feet in width, plus the predella which is two feet high by eleven feet wide. |
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| The Maestà is in the form of a large horizontal rectangle, surmounted by pinnacles, and with a narrow horizontal panel, or predella, as its base. |
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| If the SECOND ACOLYTE has assisted on the predella, he will descend in plano, genuflect, and return to his place. |
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| During the Elevation the MASTER OF CEREMONIES should kneel on the predella to the celebrant's right and lift the chasuble with his left hand. |
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| Acolytes and servers must genuflect on one knee each time before going up to the altar and again on the predella before descending. |
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| The predella painting also refers to the overall subject of the Resurrection and was originally positioned on top of the altar. |
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| This small painting is probably the central fragment of the predella of an altarpiece that must have been of relatively modest dimensions. |
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| The elongation of the composition implies either a place in a frescoed narrative cycle or, more probably, a predella panel. |
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| On the predella are paintings of the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Annunciation, the Tree of Jesse and the Adoration of the Kings. |
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| Bill Viola made the comparison to a predella that might be the last remains of an altar piece. |
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| The lower storey has a two-tiered predella front containing neo-classical panel motifs and a channel course in the upper register. |
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| The altar is crowned by skulls, bones and tyre parts, while on the predella the heart spins before a red background. |
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| Four substantial panels and the predella, or figured plinth, remain. |
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| The candidates will now advance in turn and kneel on the predella. |
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| The priest will stand facing them on the predella. |
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| During that five-year period, Roberti is believed to have worked on a predella, now in the Vatican Museum, and on the side panels of a large altarpiece now dismantled. |
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| The front and back of the predella contain scenes of the infancy and the ministry of Jesus, and the pinnacles, crowning the entire work, represent events after the Resurrection. |
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| When the priest has descended, both priest and server stepping aside genuflect together, and the server removes the steps from off the predella to their proper place. |
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| If it is local custom, the SECOND ACOLYTE may go to the middle, genuflect, and kneel on the predella at the celebrant's left, and lift the chasuble with his right hand. |
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| For the blessing the two assistants ascend the predella, and during the blessing they sustain the cope. they afterwards descend with the celebrant and kneel with him on the lowest step whilst the Divine Praises are said. |
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| On its altar is a predella with reliefs from the life of the Virgin. |
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| Many of the vertical surfaces that face the congregation-the shafts of the columns, the vertical surfaces of the right side of the predella, and the large niche in the left wing-are also heavily abraded. |
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