- Look up
retable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
retable is a
structure or
element placed either on or
immediately behind and
above the
altar or...
- gemstones, to
imitate the
lavish goldsmith's
metalwork found on some
surviving retables and
shrines on the Continent, and the now destro****
Shrine of
Edward the...
-
sometimes confused with the term
retable.
While a
reredos generally forms or
covers the wall
behind an altar, a
retable is
placed either on the
altar or...
- The
Retable of the
Virgin of
Montserrat is an oil on
panel triptych painted by
three Spanish painters: Bartolomé Bermejo, who
painted the
central panel...
- In England, as well as in France,
stone retables enjo****
general po****rity. In
Italy both
stone retables and
wooden polyptychs were common, with individual...
-
Gothic Pietà
Retable by
Jaume Cabrera; A 16th-century
Renaissance Retable of St. Mary
Magdalene by Pere Mates; A
Renaissance Saint Helen Retable by Antoni...
- The
Thornham Parva Retable is a
medieval altarpiece, now in
Thornham Parva, Suffolk, England. The
retable is
thought to have been
created in the 1330s...
- wide with the
wings open. For the
Retable of the
Crucifixion the
equivalent figures are 167 cm and 252 cm. The
retables were
transported to
Dijon from Dendermonde...
- The
Despenser Reredos or
Despenser Retable is a
medieval altarpiece now in St Luke's Chapel,
Norwich Cathedral. It is the cathedral's most
important work...
-
sacred paintings were executed, and also
elaborate carved painted wood
retables,
consisting of
crowded subjects in high relief,
richly decorated with gold...
