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	Retable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A retable is a term of ecclesiastical art and architecture, applied in modern English usage to an altar-ledge or shelf, raised slightly above the back of the altar or communion table, on which are placed the cross, ceremonial candlesticks and other ornaments.
		Retables may be lawfully used in the church of England.
		Foreign usage of the term, as in French, is different, and where the word is kept with this foreign application, the distinction should be observed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Retable (149 words)

	Michael Wohlgemuth - LoveToKnow 1911
		In 1479 he painted the retable of the high altar in the church of St Mary at Zwickau, which still exists, receiving for it the large sum of 1400 gulden.
		One of his finest and largest works is the great retable painted for the church of the Austin friars at Nuremberg, now moved into the museum; it consists of a great many panels, with figures of those saints whose worship was specially popular at Nuremberg.
		One of his latest paintings is the retable at Schwabach, executed in i 508, the contract for which still exists.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Michael_Wohlgemuth (498 words)

	NG London/Press: 'The Westminster Retable': England's Oldest Altarpiece
		The 'Retable' was almost certainly designed for the High Altar and was provided by King Henry III at the end of his reign after he had commissioned the reconstruction of Westminster Abbey in the French Gothic style.
		The 'Retable' would have been seen by few, principally by the priest officiating at mass within the enclosed monastic choir of the church.
		The French-inspired Gothic style of the Abbey was reflected in the decorative scheme of the 'Retable', such as the exquisitely carved and gilded gothic architectural borders that enclose the oil-painted figurative scenes.
	www.nationalgallery.org.uk /about/press/2005/apr_retable.htm (448 words)

	Retable - LoveToKnow 1911
		Retables may be lawfully used in the church of England (Liddell Beale, 1860, 14 P.C.).
		The foreign " retable " is, therefore, what should in English be called a " reredos " (q.v.), though that is not in modern usage a movable feature.
		This page was last modified 13:12, 22 May 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Retable (117 words)

	Valle del Aragón / Tourism: Catedral de Jaca
		Retable of the Anunciación (Annunciation), 16th century, apparently by Gabriel Joly.
		The great Plateresque retable in the inside is the work of Gabriel Joly and Gil Morlanes "el Mozo" (the young one).
		In the Parish, Baroque retable from the 18th century devoted to St. Orosia.
	www.valledelaragon.com /ingles/turismo/catedraljaca/default.asp (389 words)

	The Westminster Retable Magazine Antiques - Find Articles
		A retable is a frame enclosing decorated panels; in a Gothic church or cathedral it was normally situated above the back of the altar.
		The retable survived both the dissolution of the monasteries and the Reformation, but in the 1770s it was vandalized and partly painted over to make a case for the wax effigy of William Pitt the Elder.
		The retable is now on permanent display at the Westminster Abbey museum; a small leaflet about its construction and history, written by Paul Binski, may be ordered by telephoning 44-20-7654-4920.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_5_168/ai_n15895199 (440 words)

	Model Parish Church
		Although Kempe’s long description of the sequence of scenes is more detailed than the retable’s narrative, she appears to have been greatly influenced by the visual and performing arts.
		The realistic details are probably supplied by enactment of the Passion in liturgical dramas and in the countless renditions of scenes from the Passion in stained glass, wall paintings as well as altarpieces of her time.
		A highly conservative devotional scene, the retable was given at the historical moment of the Lollard challenges to the very idea of devotional imagery.
	www.holycross.edu /departments/visarts/projects/kempe/model/altarp.html (309 words)

	The Baptism by GRECO, El
		The retable no longer exists, and the paintings are dispersed.
		The subjects of the paintings of the retable are not recorded, but it is assumed that they illustrated the Life of Christ.
		Probably originally on the right of the retable of the Colegio de Doña Maria, balancing the Adoration of the Shepherds, and painted at the same time.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /html/g/greco_el/1596-600/colegio/4baptism.html (308 words)

	The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: Britain's oldest major altarpiece - The Westminster Retable - at the National ...
		Less than three centuries after it was set in place, however, the Retable fell victim to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, which in 1540 transformed the Benedictine abbey into the cathedral church of the new Diocese of Westminster, and then in 1560 refounded again as a collegiate church.
		Some unknown administrator's practical streak ensured that the Retable, rather than being tossed onto the bonfire or smashed into a thousand pieces, ended up, by the late seventeenth century, serving as part of a cupboard in which the wax funeral effigies of monarchs were stored.
		The Retable then survived in varying degrees of general obscurity until 1998, when the Dean and Chapter sent it off to Cambridge's Hamilton Kerr Institute for cleaning and conservation.
	www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000440.php (3390 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		The Westminster Retable - a large altar panel - could now be confirmed as the earliest surviving oil painting in the country, experts said yesterday.
		The retable is divided into five compartments depicting standing figures and, unusually say the experts, scenes from the Gospels of Christ's miracles.
		In 1827 some at least of the retable's significance was realised and it was placed in a case on display in the abbey.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/25/nretab25.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/04/25/ixnewstop.html (995 words)

	Sculpture in the 16th century
		Vigarny was also the author of four of the scenes that constitute the great retable of Toledo cathedral, and in 1505 he was entrusted with the retable of Palencia cathedral.
		During the sixteenth century, immense retables continued to be erected in the churches and cathedrals of Spain.
		When the retable was carved in stone or marble, the influence of carpentry determined its form.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Arts/scultpurePlastic/SculptureHistory/RenaissanceinItaly/Sculpture16thcentury/Sculpture16thcentury.htm (1779 words)

	Retable of the High Altar (detail) by FORMENT, Damian
		In 1509 he undertook to carve the superb retable of Nuestra Senora del Pilar in Saragossa, a work in a mixed style, with Renaissance figures surrounded by Gothic ornament.
		We are indebted to Forment for the retable of Huesca cathedral, completed in 1534.
		His original design for the great retable of the monastery of Poblet, commissioned in 1527, is also one of his masterpieces.
	www.wga.hu /html/f/forment/huesca.html (167 words)

	Worship Topics
		Built in the middle of the retable and rising above it is the throne.
		This is for the altar cross, the symbol of the risen and everlasting Lord.
		The candelabra may be a three branch candelabra signifying the Trinity, or a five branch candelabra representing the five wounds of Christ, or a seven branch candelabra symbolizing the gifts of the Holy Spirit (wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, piety and the fear of the Lord).
	www.arnold-ruddat.org /worship/page.html (820 words)

	NGA - Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages - Chronology
		A sculptor from Würzburg, presumably Riemenschneider, carves a crucifix for the castle chapel in Wittenberg, commissioned by Prince-Elector Friedrich the Wise (the sculpture is destroyed by fire in 1760).
		Receives payments for an All Saints retable for the high altar of the church of the Dominican nuns in Rothenburg; figures from that altarpiece may still exist.
		His retable of Christ and the Apostles, commissioned by Elisabeth Bachknapp, is installed in the church of Saint Kilian in Windsheim.
	www.nga.gov /exhibitions/tilmanchron.htm (766 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Forment, Damián (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In 1509 he moved to Saragossa to work on the main retable in the cathedral of Nuestra Señora del Pilar, which is modelled on the Gothic altarpiece in the cathedral of La Seo, Saragossa.
		The Pilar retable, one of Forment’s noblest works, is made in alabaster and has three vertical sections surmounted by Gothic cresting and a central open section that houses the tabernacle (sagrario).
		In Saragossa, Forment also carved the main wooden retable (1511–24), which is Gothic in structure, in the church of S Pablo and that in the church of S Miguel de los Navarros (1518), for which he turned to Renaissance forms.
	www.artnet.com /library/02/0289/T028983.asp (333 words)

	NG London/Past Exhibitions/Westminster Retable: England's Oldest Altarpiece
		The 'Westminster Retable' is widely recognised as the most important Gothic panel painting produced in the Anglo-French milieu in the late 13th century.
		Originally, it may have functioned as the high altarpiece of Westminster Abbey, produced under the patronage of Henry III or Edward I. After the Dissolution of the Abbey it served as part of a cupboard for the display of the royal funeral waxworks and only came to notice in 1725.
		This exhibition marks the end of a seven year period during which the 'Retable' has been in conservation at the Hamilton Kerr Institute in Cambridge.
	www.nationalgallery.org.uk /exhibitions/westminster (181 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Exhibitions
		El Greco was commissioned in December 1596 to produce the main retable for the church of the Augustinian monastery that became known as the Colegio de Doëa Marýa de Aragon after its founder.
		After the invasion of the French Napoleonic army in 1808, the paintings were confiscated, removed from the monastery and separated.
		The loan exhibition from the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome comprises sketches for two of the retable scenes - The Adoration of the Shepherds and The Baptism of Christ, dating roughly from 1597.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/04/b2003/hm4_1_02.html (505 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Merlo, Giraldo de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He executed the sculptures for the principal retable in the monastery of S Pedro Mártir, Toledo, in collaboration with Jorge Manuel Theotocopoulos.
		In 1610 he was in Sigüenza, where he executed the important principal retable in the cathedral.
		The retable of 1611 for the church of the Virgen del Prado, Ciudad Real, is also composed of numerous reliefs.
	www.artnet.com /library/05/0569/T056955.asp (423 words)

	The Thornham Parva Retable:1872501079:Hamilton Kerr Institute:eCampus.com
		In 1987 a detailed study of the Retable in-situ and the Cluny Frontal, now in the Musee National du Moyen Age, Paris, established that both were parts of the altar which was probably made for the Dominican Priory at Thetford.
		It was saved from destruction after the dissolution of the monasteries in the early 16th century by a local family who adapted it for use as a private altar.
		After a sustained period of fund raising, the Parochial Church Council entrusted the examination and conservation of the Retable to the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=1872501079&referrer=yah04 (270 words)

	ClassicalPainters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Some of his most famous works include those made for the retable of “St. Thomas” in Avila, the retable at the church of “St. Eulalia” in Paredes de Nava, the “Annunciation” for the Carthusian monastery in Miraflores, and the “Holy Family” (1500).
		His last commission was to work on the main retable of the Cathedral of Avila, a task he could not finish.
		Lucientes was born in the village of Fuendetodos, Aragón in 1746.
	users.adelphia.net /~fvila/Spain/classicalpainters.htm (5304 words)

	Mexico Desconocido: sculpture The history of the Altar of Forgiveness in the Metropolitan Cathedral (Mexico city)
		It is called the Altar of Forgiveness because it is located precisely behind the main door of the cathedral, which is also named that, because that is where the penitent entered to become reconciled with the church.
		When the new retable was installed in 1668, the painting of Our Lady of Nieves (the people called her our Lady of Forgiveness) was placed on the altar so that it could be in the retable of the same name.
		The original doors had beautiful reliefs of flower vases, but when the retable was restored, they were eliminated in order to fit in with the design of the lower part of the altar.
	www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx /english/cultura_y_sociedad/arte/detalle.cfm?idsec=14&idsub=51&idpag=633 (1215 words)

	Narbonne's Retable Reveals its Secrets
		These experts have come together to study restoration problems, in particular that of the presence of a hard protective layer, normally associated with weathering, which exists beneath the painted layers of the retable, an item which is usually indoors.
		Its connection with the abnormal concentration of salts observed in the stone is still being studied.
		These results show that the late fourteenth century sculptors and painters who created the retable must have known enough about the properties of their materials to work together closely when preparing the surface of the sculpted support prior to painting.
	www.cnrs.fr /Cnrspresse/n385/html/en385a07.htm (303 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Altar Screen
		The face of this structure which looks towards the nave of the church is called the "retable", and the reverse is called the "counter-retable".
		Sometimes the reredos extends across the whole breadth of the church, and is carried nearly up to the ceiling.
		This decorative screen, retable, or reredos is also called the altarpiece.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01356d.htm (395 words)

	AllRefer.com - retable (Art, General) - Encyclopedia
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		Retables, often sumptuously decorated in alabaster and gold, generally contained scenes from the Bible.
		An altarpiece made of fixed panels may also be termed a retable.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/retable.html (144 words)

	Norwich
		NR 5a Despenser Retable, Norwich Cathedral, 1381-1400, detail of Resurrection, after C. Quennell, The Cathedral Church of Norwich (London: George Bell and Sons, 1900)
		The parish church of St. Stephen's is now a large, late-Gothic building with splendid hammer beam roof, tall aisles, and clerestory dating to the late 15th century.
		The present chancel dates from 1380 and the reign of Bishop Despencer (of retable fame); the rest of the church was rebuilt in the late fifteenth century by Bishop Goldwell.
	www.holycross.edu /departments/visarts/projects/anglia/norwich/norwich.htm (1301 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: European Paintings
		This quite early, nearly intact, small-scale retable by an anonymous painter in Valencia exemplifies the influence exerted there by Marzal de Sas, a German painter who went to Spain sometime before 1394.
		The retable, like Hubert and Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece, is a type of illustration of the City of God (the New or Heavenly Jerusalem) described by Saint Augustine.
		The lateral lunettes show the Annunciation and that in the center depicts a symbolic Crucifixion, with implements of Christ's Passion.
	www.metmuseum.org /Works_Of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=11&viewMode=1&item=39.54 (329 words)

	Taft Museum of Art :: Collections
		Master of the Mesnil-sous-Jumièges Retable, Plaque of the Passion of Christ (2 of 12)
		Master of the Mesnil-sous-Jumièges Retable, Plaque of the Passion of Christ (3 of 12)
		Master of the Mesnil-sous-Jumièges Retable, Plaque of the Passion of Christ (4 of 12)
	www.taftmuseum.org /collectionT.php?collectionid=5&perpage=9&pagenumber=3 (212 words)

	Christian Today > Christian News, Updated Daily > Oldest Altar-Piece in England Exposed in National Gallery
		England's oldest altarpiece, the Westminster Retable, has been restored to something approaching its former glory after centuries of neglect.
		The Westminster Retable, made almost 750 years ago has now become the oldest surviving altarpiece in England and a masterpiece of European medieval art, described Paul Binski, an expert on medieval art from Cambridge University.
		Binski coomented that it was "a miracle of miniaturisation" as it displays no less than the whole world, the sea teeming with fish, the land burgeoning with plants, clouds half hiding a crescent moon and a sun painted as a blazing Catherine wheel.
	www.christiantoday.com /news/society/oldest.altar.piece.in.england.exposed.in.national.gallery/275.htm (460 words)

	Cronaca: Westminster Retable on display
		The heartbreaking ruin of a great work of art went on view yesterday at the National Gallery, and drew awed viewers from the moment the gallery opened.
		Just enough has been salvaged, through six years and thousands of hours of conservation work, to prove that the Westminster Retable, made almost 750 years ago and now the oldest surviving altarpiece in England, was a masterpiece of European medieval art.
		The National Gallery has a page on the retable exhibition, but you'll get more out of this article from last month's Telegraph
	www.cronaca.com /archives/003485.html (265 words)

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