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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.
It contains nine side chapels and five large, richly decorated panels with reliefs (attributed to Lucas Giraldo and Vasco de la Zarza). The middle panel is an alabaster piece, with a wealth of detail and structured like a retable, by Vasco de la Zarza and accommodates the tomb of Alonso de Madrigal, also named "El Tostado", a bishop of Ávila.
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 map for Fortnite Chapter 5 leaked a couple of weeks ago, and now we have a list of the points of interest to fill out the map. These aren’t likely the final names though, as pointed out by ...
November 23: V27.11 - This last update for Fortnite OG includes the Heavy Sniper Rifle, Proximity Grenade Launcher, Air Strike and Junk Rift, the Storm Flip and Jetpack. Oh, and the Baller to roll ...
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 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 ...
Location Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Buhl, Haut-Rhin The Buhl Altarpiece ( French : Retable de Buhl ) is a late 15th-century, Gothic altarpiece of colossal dimensions now kept in the parish church Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste of Buhl in the Haut-Rhin département of France.