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Definition of Retable

Retable
Retable Re*ta"ble, n. (Eccl.) A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc.

Meaning of Retable from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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 Westminster Retable, the oldest known panel painting altarpiece in England, is estimated to have been painted in the 1270s in the circle of Plantagenet...
- The Nailloux Altarpiece (French: "Retable de Nailloux") embodies the artistic style of France during the medieval era. The Nailloux consisted of five...
- 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...
- 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...
- of the nave that is said to be late Anglo-Saxon as well as the famous retable. Architect Basil Spence died in 1976 at his home in Yaxley, Suffolk and...
- 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...
- "Madonna and Child", detail of the retable in the Church of the ****umption, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia...
- widest in Christendom (22 meters). Among its interior decorations is a retable which is the work of the Valencian silversmith Pere Bernec. It is divided...