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In the more abstract works like one based on an antependium — a traditional type of banner that hangs from the front of a lectern or altar — the profuse ornamental patterning and the illuminated colored glass still exert much visual magnetism.

Antependium, an-te-pend′i-um, n. a frontlet, forecloth, frontal, or covering for an altar, of silk, satin, or velvet, often richly embroidered.

There are also reproductions of a medieval tapestry, History of Venus, and several sculptures, notably St. George and the Dragon by Fritz Preiss and Fulda's 11th century antependium for Basel Cathedral.

The earliest known instance of a composition of the kind, however, is a series of enamels on an antependium or altar-frontal in the St Leopold Chapel at Klosterneuburg, near Vienna, which originally contained forty-five pictures dealing with Biblical subjects, arranged in the same order as in the Biblia Pauperum, and which were executed by Nicolas de Verdun, in 1181.

Antependium.—The name given to the covering hanging in front of the lectern, pulpit or Altar, and being the color of the Church Season.