- 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...
- 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
Thornham Parva Retable is a
medieval altarpiece, now in
Thornham Parva, Suffolk, England. The
retable is
thought to have been
created in the 1330s...
-
sacred paintings were executed, and also
elaborate carved painted wood
retables,
consisting of
crowded subjects in high relief,
richly decorated with gold...
- Pala d'Oro (Italian, "Golden Panel") is the high
altar retable of the
Basilica di San
Marco in
Venice (and in
Italian may
refer to
other gold
altar frontals...
- The
Annunciation of
Cortona is a panel-painting
altarpiece or
retable by the
Italian Renaissance painter Fra Angelico: once
housed in the
Church of Gesù...
