Altar Frontal, c. 1550, 19 3/4 x 71 1/2 in. ( x cm), Silk, metallic threads; embroidery, Spain, 16th century, The European altar frontal, or antependium, is a framed decorative hanging seen by the congregation. It developed from the Eastern church practice of screening the entire altar with curtains. The Catholic Church dispensed with the use of altar frontals after Vatican II in the 1960s

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