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A simple shelf retable in Yorkshire On one strict definition, this French 17th-century construction is a retable rather than a reredos, as it is all one construction. A retable is a structure or element placed either on or immediately behind and above the altar or communion table [1] of a church.
The retable may have become part of the reredos when an altar was moved away from the wall. For altars that are against the wall, the retable often sits on top of the altar, at the back, particularly when there is no reredos (in which case a dossal curtain or something similar is used instead of a reredos). The retable may hold flowers and ...
A retablo is a devotional painting, especially a small popular or folk art one using iconography derived from traditional Catholic church art. More generally retablo is also the Spanish term for a retable or reredos above an altar, whether a large altarpiece painting or an elaborate wooden structure with sculptures. Typically this includes ...
The retable of the Cathedral of Toledo is an extremely florid Gothic altarpiece; it is one of the last examples of this artistic style, which was disappearing as the Renaissance began to take hold in Spain.
This is usually so called, but is an altarpiece and might also be called a retable or reredos. The shelf it rises from is a gradine. Dossal curtain, below a painted altarpiece, Weston-on-the-Green, Oxfordshire Green riddel curtains, with a metalwork dossal, in the Mass of St Gilles by the Master of Saint Giles
The Chapel of the Compassion, accessed from the ambulatory, was the former royal chapel. It contains one of the most notable works of art in the church, a Flemish carved retable made in about 1515 in Antwerp, near the end of the Middle Ages, when Flanders was at its artistic height. The carved sculpture represents scenes from the Old and New ...
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 around 1485, and by Rodrigo and Francisco de Osona, who painted the side panels.
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 of art. The altarpiece shows five scenes from the end of Christ's life—his flagellation, his journey to the cross, his crucifixion, events that follow his burial, and the Ascension.