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Definition of retable in English: retable(also retablo) nounPlural retables, Plural retablos rɪˈteɪb(ə)l 1A frame or shelf enclosing decorated panels or revered objects above and behind an altar. Example sentencesExamples - This relationship to Netherlandish wooden retables provides several clues both to the meaning of the gates and their method of production.
- The Keldermans family regularly planned or produced works of microarchitecture - choir screens, retables, tabernacles, and mantelpieces - and several of their designs were stipulated as prototypes for other buildings.
- Considerably more remarkable than the altar paintings are the reredoses or retables of carved and gilded wood (talha dourada) into which the paintings were inserted.
- By the fifteenth century, retablos combined individual paintings, often of different sizes and in large groups, in a fixed architectural frame that was frequently at full architectural scale.
- Through the screen's open central doorway a carved retable can be seen, but the altar itself is obscured by two angels who occupy the space, singing from a book.
Synonyms ledge, bracket, sill, rack - 1.1 A painting or other image above and behind an altar.
the retable of St Vincent Example sentencesExamples - She was printing on big sheets of aluminum in the spirit of Mexican retablos, and I wrote some poems for the images, and had them translated so they could appear bilingually.
- In her paintings, she emphasized her Indian heritage, borrowing from ancient Mexican and popular art forms, such as retablos, or votive paintings.
- The most important form of folk painting is the retablo, which depicts a miraculous event.
- There are many paintings of the Passion, ranging from Memlinc's continuous representation of it in a single retable in the Turin Pinacoteca to Rembrandt's incomparable series in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
- Some non-funerary monumental medieval and early-renaissance retablos also seem to have incorporated images of the Vir Dolorum as a centrepiece, even when such works bore dedications to the Virgin.
Origin Early 19th century: from French rétable, from Spanish retablo, from medieval Latin retrotabulum 'rear table', from Latin retro 'backwards' + tabula 'table'. Definition of retable in US English: retable(also retablo) noun 1A frame or shelf enclosing decorated panels or revered objects above and behind an altar. Example sentencesExamples - The Keldermans family regularly planned or produced works of microarchitecture - choir screens, retables, tabernacles, and mantelpieces - and several of their designs were stipulated as prototypes for other buildings.
- By the fifteenth century, retablos combined individual paintings, often of different sizes and in large groups, in a fixed architectural frame that was frequently at full architectural scale.
- Through the screen's open central doorway a carved retable can be seen, but the altar itself is obscured by two angels who occupy the space, singing from a book.
- This relationship to Netherlandish wooden retables provides several clues both to the meaning of the gates and their method of production.
- Considerably more remarkable than the altar paintings are the reredoses or retables of carved and gilded wood (talha dourada) into which the paintings were inserted.
Synonyms ledge, bracket, sill, rack - 1.1 A painting or other image above and behind an altar.
the retable of St. Vincent Example sentencesExamples - The most important form of folk painting is the retablo, which depicts a miraculous event.
- There are many paintings of the Passion, ranging from Memlinc's continuous representation of it in a single retable in the Turin Pinacoteca to Rembrandt's incomparable series in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
- Some non-funerary monumental medieval and early-renaissance retablos also seem to have incorporated images of the Vir Dolorum as a centrepiece, even when such works bore dedications to the Virgin.
- She was printing on big sheets of aluminum in the spirit of Mexican retablos, and I wrote some poems for the images, and had them translated so they could appear bilingually.
- In her paintings, she emphasized her Indian heritage, borrowing from ancient Mexican and popular art forms, such as retablos, or votive paintings.
Origin Early 19th century: from French rétable, from Spanish retablo, from medieval Latin retrotabulum ‘rear table’, from Latin retro ‘backwards’ + tabula ‘table’. |