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The Filippo Strozzi Chapel (right of the altar) is decorated with Filippino Lippi’s frescoes of saints Philip and John, rich in color and anecdotal detail: In the monumental Exorcism of Demons in the Temple of Mars, notice the three bystanders holding their noses at the smell.
The word altar is derived from the Latin word altare, a combination of altus, high, and ara, altar, referring to a raised structure for worship, one that goes upward toward the sky or heaven.
In the Gondi Chapel (left of the high altar), the Brunelleschi Crucifixion (1410), his only scultpure in wood, brings to the human body a characteristic idealized harmony, compared with Donatello’s more personal piece in the church of Santa Croce (see page 87).
In the little church of Santa Maria Assunta, with the region’s characteristic majolica-tiled dome, see the 13th-century Byzantine-style altar painting.
An altar is a religious shrine (depending on its size, sometimes called an altarcito, a little altar) established in the home for the personal worship by the family.