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...

"Madonna and Child", detail of the retable in the Church of the Assumption, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia...

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...

artist of the International Gothic style in Catalonia. Martorell painted retable panels and manuscript illuminations, and carved sculptures and also provided...

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...

archdiocese between 1921 and 1922. The Cathedral's highlight is the gilded retable on the main altar. It was created at the end of the 17th century, designed...

sacred paintings were executed, and also elaborate carved painted wood retables, consisting of crowded subjects in high relief, richly decorated with gold...

Christopher Columbus, as well as many important artworks, including the largest retable (altarpiece) in Spain. A number of later additions, mostly in Plateresque...

Reconstitution de l'extérieur du retable de Saint-Bertin....

The Notre-Dame du Kreisker chapel (Breton: Chapel Itron-Varia ar C'hreiz-kêr; French: Chapelle Notre-Dame du Kreisker) is a Roman Catholic chapel in Saint-Pol-de-Léon...

In England, as well as in France, stone retables enjoyed general popularity. In Italy both stone retables and wooden polyptychs were common, with individual...

stained glass windows were made after 1478 by Enrique Aleman. The enormous retable was designed in 1482 by Dutch artist Pieter Dancart, who worked on it until...

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...

The Nailloux Altarpiece (French: "Retable de Nailloux") embodies the artistic style of France during the medieval era. The Nailloux consisted of five...

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...

Reconstitution de l'extérieur du retable de Saint-Bertin....

registered as historical objects: A Retable (17th century) A Group Sculpture: Education of the Virgin (17th century) A Retable (17th century) A Painting: The...

in 1739, the church was built in a proto-Baroque style and features a retable by the Italian artist Nicolau Nasoni and a façade of 1932 azulejo tilework...

altarpiece (also folding altar) or winged retable is a special form of altarpiece (reredos, occasionally retable), common in Northern and Central Europe...

half-hidden Sun and Moon, works from the 12th century. There is also a retable dating from the 1575, which is considered of exceptional quality. and attributed...

Mimara Museum in Zagreb. The Retable of the Crucifixion, left side. Retable of the crucifixion, central panel. The Retable of the Crucifixion, right side...

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worked on the High Altar Retable for the convent church of Santa Anna (carpentry contract,1485) the surviving panels from this retable were destroyed in 1936...

Buhl (French pronunciation: [byl] ; German: Bühl) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It inhabitants are called...

vertically from the back of the altar and to which the cloth is attached. Retable and reredos are alternative terms for solid structures, as is altarpiece...

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...

Romanesque-Cistercian style. It houses several Romanesque paintings and a Gothic retable. Vinaixa is a municipality located in the south-eastern sector of the region...

dedicated to its patron Saint Nicholas. Notable within the shrine are the retable (circa 1500) to the right of the transept, the high altar, and the episcopal...