Explore: Retables Baroques

Late Baroque façade, Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela (1738–1750) Palacio de San Telmo in Seville by Leonardo de Figueroa (1682–1754) Retable in the

(1954). The Rite of Spring Le Vent : tentative de restitution d'un rétable baroque (1957). The Wind, trans. Richard Howard (Braziller, 1959) L'Herbe (1958)

Permoser The most dramatic theater for Baroque sculpture in Germany was church architecture. Particularly complex retables and high altars. crowded with statues

intellect. The Churriguera family, which specialized in designing altars and retables, revolted against the sobriety of the Herreresque classicism and promoted

later extended into the lateral altar (Mannerist) and the chancel retable (Baroque). Records from 815, as suggested by J. Augusto Vieira, already indicated

escurialense style. The Baroque was gradually introduced, especially in the ornate interior decoration of churches and palaces, where the retables evolved towards

linked to the Society of Jesus. It is one of the best examples of a Baroque retable in colonial Brazil. It was slightly altered at the beginning of the

one Italian Renaissance retable (16th century); one late Renaissance retable (1610, polycromed in 1617); and five Baroque retables (1642, 1683, 1685). Probably

façade, and the interior decoration features baroque golden woodwork retables and neoclassical retables and tiles. 41°33′14″N 8°25′33″W / 41.5540°N

The Marienaltar by Conrad von Soest is an altar retable in the Marienkirche in Dortmund from around 1420. It is considered a masterpiece of the late Gothic