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Look up retable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A retable is a structure or element placed either on or immediately behind and above the altar or

gemstones, to imitate the lavish goldsmith's metalwork found on some surviving retables and shrines on the Continent, and the now destroyed Shrine of Edward the

sometimes confused with the term retable. While a reredos generally forms or covers the wall behind an altar, a retable is placed either on the altar or

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

In England, as well as in France, stone retables enjoyed general popularity. In Italy both stone retables and wooden polyptychs were common, with individual

The Thornham Parva Retable is a medieval altarpiece, now in Thornham Parva, Suffolk, England. The retable is thought to have been created in the 1330s

"Madonna and Child", detail of the retable in the Church of the Assumption, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

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

sacred paintings were executed, and also elaborate carved painted wood retables, consisting of crowded subjects in high relief, richly decorated with gold

Statues of St. Aubin and St. Sebastian (1787) A Secondary Altar, seating, Retables, and 2 Statues of the Virgin and St. Quentin (18th century) The Church