The cathedral is admirable; when you enter you find yourself at once in darkness, and the air is heavy with incense; but, as your eyes become accustomed to the gloom, you see the black forms of penitents kneeling by pillars, looking towards an altar, and by the light of the painted windows a reredos, with the gaunt saints of an early painter, and aureoles shining dimly.
"Orientations"
William Somerset Maugham
It is interesting to note that the open fire-hearth, once used in domestic halls, was also called a "reredos."
"Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them"
Sidney Heath
The reredos is by Jean Dubois.
"The South of France--East Half"
Charles Bertram Black