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 Thornham Parva Retable is a medieval altarpiece, now in Thornham Parva, Suffolk, England. The retable is thought to have been created in the 1330s...

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...

Pala d'Oro (Italian, "Golden Panel") is the high altar retable of the Basilica di San Marco in Venice. It is universally recognized as one of the most...

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...

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

one Italian Renaissance retable (16th century); one late Renaissance retable (1610, polycromed in 1617); and five Baroque retables (1642, 1683, 1685). Probably...

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...

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 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...

monumental, except for sporadic cases, and it concentrates on portable pieces,retables and altars. The 13th century, as we have seen, was characterized by the...

(Polish: Poliptyk z Lusiny, German: Polyptychon aus Lusina), late-Gothic retable, polyptych embellished with paintings and bas-reliefs, created at an unknown...

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

institute opened a studio in London. The Westminster Retable: 1998–2004. The Westminster Retable of ca. 1270 was the main altarpiece for Westminster Abbey...

a series of works such as the retable of San Domenico at Ancona (1520), the retable of Brescia (1522), and the retable of San Niccolò (1523), in the Vatican...

16/1985 of 25 June). The most important parts of the chapel are its main retable, grid and vault. In the Sacristy-Museum is the legacy of the Catholic Monarchs...

inspiration for Breton artists. The region has a great number of baroque retables, made between the 17th and the 19th century. Breton sculptors were also...

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

which contains the high altar. The abbey has the 13th-century Westminster Retable, thought to be the altarpiece from Henry III's 13th-century church and...

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

through the figures of the Virgin and saints. In the upper niche of the retable is a marble statue depicting the Virgin as the Mater Dolorosa whose heart...

Éditions Charles Corlet. p. 55. ISBN 2-85480-274-8. "autel latéral sud, retable et tableau : Pentecôt". Ministère de Culture (in French). Association de...

capitals, sarcophagi, frescoes, marble altars and later embellished with retables, paintings by important artists such as the Master of Castelsardo, Pietro...

was replaced by a statue of an unnamed saint in the 19th century. The retable of the main altar displays one of the major works of art in the church...

on the sleeves, while Jesus is dressed in purple and a less fiery red. "Retable du Tempelhof de Bergheim : Prédication de Jean-Baptiste et Combat de saint...

to the Master of the Retable of Pierre de Wissant, may be another work by Colart de Laon. Annunciation by the Master of the Retable of Pierre de Wissant...

over much of Europe for economical parishes who could not afford stone retables. Small carvings, for a mainly lay and often female market, became a considerable...