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Tilted Towers was a small city location in Fortnite: Battle Royale, [1] [2] and a current location in Fortnite Reload. [3] Located near the center of the map, the city is composed of several large skyscrapers with cramped interiors, each consisting of several stories, [1] [2] the tallest of which is a large clock tower. [4]
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 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 ...
The Despenser Reredos is a medieval altarpiece used in St Luke's Chapel in Norwich Cathedral, [1] which has been used as a parish church since the 16th century. [2] The reredos was discovered in the cathedral in 1847, having been converted into a table during the English Reformation, [3] and kept for years in an upper room, with the altarpiece paintings hidden underneath.
A retable is a structure or element placed either on or immediately behind and above the altar or communion table [1] of a church. At the minimum, it may be a simple shelf for candles behind an altar, but it can also be a large and elaborate structure. A retable which incorporates sculptures or paintings is often referred to as an altarpiece.
Pala d'Oro viewed in its altarpiece setting. 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 refined and accomplished works of Byzantine enamel, with both front and rear sides decorated.
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.
The retable was returned to St Mary's Church, Thornham Parva, in 2003, following eight years of restoration by the Hamilton Kerr Institute in Cambridge. [3] Using sturgeon glue, applied with tiny dabs of cotton buds, inch by inch the layers of grime were removed to reveal some of the original gold and a glowing autumnal palette of translucent reds, purples and greens which the original artist ...