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    A winged altarpiece (also folding altar) or winged retable is a special form of altarpiece (reredos, occasionally retable), common in Northern and Central...
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    larger surfaces. The largest painted altarpieces developed complicated structures, especially winged altarpieces with hinged side wings that folded in...
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    Weimar Cranach Altarpiece (or Herderkirche Weimar Cranach Altarpiece) is a Lutheran winged altarpiece created by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his son Lucas...
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    The Ghent Altarpiece, also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (Dutch: De aanbidding van het Lam Gods), is a very large and complex 15th-century polyptych...
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    Wittenberg Cranach Altarpiece (or Reformation Altarpiece) is one of the major Lutheran winged altarpieces created by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his son...
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    The Herrenberg Altarpiece (German: Herrenberger Altar) is a winged altarpiece, that was created between 1518 and 1521 for the Brethren of the Common Life...
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    The Schneeberg Altarpiece (or Schneeberg Reformation Altar) is a Lutheran winged altarpiece created in 1539 by Lucas Cranach the Elder for the Church of...
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    The Gotha Altarpiece (or Gotha Table-Altar) is a Lutheran winged altarpiece created between 1538 and 1541 in the Renaissance style by German artist Heinrich...
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    Belgium, the original in 1610 and the latter in 1638. The original is a winged altarpiece, with the outside of the hinged wings also painted. These can be folded...
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    is covered by a four-part rib vault and includes two organs and a winged altarpiece by Hendrik van der Geld, created between 1878 and 1881. Frescos of...
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    The Winged Altarpiece of Our Lady from Seeberg (ca. 1520) is a Late Gothic altarpiece originally located in the Church of St Wolfgang in Seeberg (today...
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  • Thumbnail for Isenheim Altarpiece
    The Isenheim Altarpiece is an altarpiece sculpted and painted by, respectively, the Germans Nikolaus of Haguenau and Matthias Grünewald in 1512–1516....
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  • Thumbnail for Kefermarkt altarpiece
    The Kefermarkt altarpiece (German: Kefermarkter Flügelaltar) is a richly decorated wooden altarpiece in the Late Gothic style in the parish church of...
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    restorations were conducted from 1973–1986. From 1976–1982, the late Gothic winged altarpiece, one of the masterpieces of Transylvanian art, was thoroughly cleaned...
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    the two side apses. The side walls show stages of human life. The winged altarpiece, also from his own hand, stands under the theme of "security in the...
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    larger winged altarpiece. The altarpiece's donor was Archbishop Arnošt of Pardubice, who is portrayed in the bottom left-hand corner. The altarpiece for...
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    Polyptych (category Altarpieces)
    with a unified background, but Rubens still painted some very large winged altarpieces in the early 17th century, such as his Descent from the Cross triptych...
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    individual bronze parts, some gilded, on the north wall of the chancel Winged altarpiece by Christian Swarte (c. 1495) with Woman of the Apocalypse, now installed...
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    slabs of slate and two buttresses and enlarged in 1580. Its gothic winged altarpiece dating from 1465 was restored in 1880 and from 1967-1973. In the middle...
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  • Thumbnail for Crucifixion from Nové Sady (Master of the Rajhrad Altarpiece)
    places the painting in 1420, or before 1427, when the three-part winged altarpiece with the Crucifixion (now in Keresztény Múzeum, Esztergom) by Master...
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    Madonna with St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist (Cheb) Winged Altarpiece of Our Lady from Seeberg "Population of Municipalities – 1 January...
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  • Thumbnail for Mérode Altarpiece
    The Mérode Altarpiece (or Annunciation Triptych) is an oil on oak panel triptych, now in The Cloisters, in New York City. It is unsigned and undated, but...
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    built between 1460 and 1491. The church also houses a late-Gothic winged altarpiece from 1520, and a crypt and tomb containing Briccius' mortal remains...
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  • Thumbnail for Veit Stoss altarpiece in Kraków
    The Altarpiece by Veit Stoss (Polish: Ołtarz Wita Stwosza), also St. Mary's Altar (Ołtarz Mariacki), is a large Gothic altarpiece and a national treasure...
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    The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Niké of Samothrace, is a votive monument originally discovered on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean...
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    the later Rajhrad Altarpiece (the Crucifixion and Christ Carrying the Cross) and the Graudenz Altarpiece. The original winged altarpiece could have been...
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    The Master of the Pähl Altarpiece (German: Meister des Pähler Altars) was an anonymous Gothic painter, known for the winged altar or triptych he painted...
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    part of Iceland. The church doors were made of driftwood, and the winged altarpiece dates from 1742. The pulpit was created in the 18th century as well...
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  • Thumbnail for St John Altarpiece (Memling)
    The St John Altarpiece (sometimes the Triptych of the two Saints John or the Triptych of St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist) is a large oil-on-oak...
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  • Thumbnail for Mikhail Vrubel
    painting style was of Byzantine origin and was inspired by a hammered winged altarpiece from one of the Tiflis monasteries. Vrubel travelled to Venice together...
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