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Example sentences for: altar

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In the church, look behind the altar at the Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary, backed by an alabaster panel of blond angels.
Designed by architects Callicrates and Iktinus, work began in 447 b.c. and the temple was dedicated in 438 b.c. with a huge celebration, the Panathenaic Festival, that involved thousands of people; live animals were sacrificed at an altar on the eastern façade.
The home of many impressive works of classical antiquity, the Near East, Islam, and the Orient, the museum is named after its most prized possession: the gigantic Pergamon Altar (2nd century b.c.).
But reverence can also cause damage: on the 13th-century bronze statue of St. Peter near the main altar, attributed to Florentine architect-sculptor Arnolfo di Cambio, the lips and fingers of countless pilgrims have worn away the toes of its right foot.
The fashion followers of the world have long been worshipping at the altar of Italy’s high priests and priestesses — unrivalled fashion houses and the generations-old textile factories that supply them.