paliotton.

1906 R. Lanciani Golden Days of Renaissance in Rome vi. 263 For instance, the panel modelled by Raphael and cast in bronze by Lorenzetto, which formed the principal ornament of the banker's tomb, was removed from its place, and turned into an altar-front or ‘paliotto’. The basrelief represents the Redeemer sitting by the well.

1929 Speculum 4 419 Those Nativities in which one or more little late Hellenistic cities appear above the scene, e.g. in the Evangeliary of Otto III..; in the Paliotto of Milan.

1938 E. R. Crichton & G. H. Crichton Nicolo Pisano & Revival Sculpt. Italy ii. iv. 101 The Creation of the World and the first beginning of human history according to the biblical account were represented in art from a very early date... A number of later ivories contain scenes from Genesis such as the paliotto in Salerno.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 June 356/3 The ‘Baptism of Christ’ from the thirteenth-century St John paliotto in the Siena Gallery, the head of Pietro Lorenzetti's St Catherine of Alexandria, [etc.].

1986 Renaissance Q. 39 220 The medal provided the model for the portrait of Sixtus in his paliotto.

2004 L. Polizzotto Children of Promise iii. 165 (note) An example..is provided by a paliotto..made in Sept. 1526. Of white silk damask with fringe, it had the head of an ox as a central decoration. The ox was the symbol of St. Luke and of his Gospel.