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Noun(1) ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar(2) ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar)

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(1) On the surrounding walls are photocopied renderings of ornate twisted columns that evoke Bernini's monumental baldachin in St. Peter's - which is surmounted by a golden orb.(2) In this image, the bishop carries a monstrance under the shelter of a portable baldachin decorated with the images of various saints and martyrs.(3) This gilded silver casket was made in the form of a Gothic church that echoes the design of both the Ste-Chapelle and the baldachin that sheltered the grand chasse.(4) The centerpiece depicts the empress enthroned under a baldachin and surrounded by figures of Hercules, Minerva, Mars, and other gods celebrating her military achievements.(5) A sofa with a baldachin is forced onto its stilted knees.(6) The central baldachin in Gossaert's Malvagna triptych contains a number of individual tracery figures that are essential to its design.(7) The whole forms a remarkable three-dimensional baldachin for the chapel, as sculptural as it is architectural.(8) The twisted columns of Bernini's baldacchino above Saint Peter's tomb, as yet not found, do not announce his resurrection.(9) De Rossi, a younger sculptor, had worked under Bernini on the baldacchino .(10) The building, rich with turrets, parapets, statues, and heavy baldachins , is greater than the sum of its parts.(11) In the vast basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano the priests bustled like beetles around the baldacchino as they presided over Midnight Mass.(12) Icon screens came down and baroque marble altars with baldacchinos went up.(13) His chief undertaking in Padua was a new high altar for the Santo, and its seven bronze statues and 22 reliefs were originally arranged beneath a baldacchino as a sacra conversazione.(14) Set on the north boundary on a decking platform with a cantilevered shelter over it, it is a single cubic mass, a pristine altar to the outdoor life under a hardwood baldacchino .(15) Whereas Gossaert's outer frame conceals the termination of the baldachins , the replica extends them to their projected spires and highest vaults.(16) Heydenreich's windows are hybrid creations: although the columns announce their Italian provenance, the statues of saints are sheltered by diminutive baldachins of Gothic tracery.
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