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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. At the minimum, it may be a simple shelf for ...
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 background is taken up by a deep bird's-eye view of the landscape sloping down towards the sea, with two Gothic-style religious buildings: on the right, near the group, a Franciscan convent: from the church portal, dominated by a cymatium with inside, in the tympanum, a statue of the Madonna with Child in her arms, a young friar looks out ...
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
Retable (1602), San Sepulcro, Toro [de; es] [1] Sculptures of the retable, church of the Monasterio de Santa Sofía, Toro [1] Retable with the fine relief of the Granting of the chasuble to Saint Ildefonsus (1607), San Pedro, Villalpando. It is influenced by Juni. Rueda worked on the garments which are influenced by Gregorio Fernández. [1]
The church building is a five-aisled hall church, with copper-covered roof and a single west tower with side extensions and an obelisk-shaped, copper-clad spire. It is built in the Scandinavian Brick Gothic style. Outer panels of the retable of St Mary by Adriaen van Overbeke in the Cathedral
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.
The retable returned to Thornham Parva church in 2003, following eight years of restoration by the Hamilton Kerr Institute in Cambridge. [5] Using sturgeon glue, applied with tiny dabs of cotton buds, inch by inch the layers of grime were removed to reveal rich gold and glowing autumnal palette of translucent reds, purples and greens which the ...