At the base of this Retablo may be read the words--Pere Bernec me feu--Peter Bernec made me.
The most important example of Spanish silversmith's work of the 14th century is the Retablo and Baldaquino of the cathedral of Gerona.
The retablo back of the high altar, consisting of Plateresque ornament, belongs for the most part to the Renaissance.
Back of the retablo and the high altar, you are startled by the most horrible and vulgar composition of the church.
This and the retablo at Toledo are probably the richest specimens of mediaeval woodwork in existence.
The retablo above the high altar is in its simplicity as refreshing as the light and sunniness of the church.
The first architects of this period worked on Granada Cathedral; the work of the greatest sculptor, the Burgundian Vigarny, is found in inferior form on the retablo of the Royal Chapel.
In the central one, closed from the transept by a simple iron reja, stands the high altar backed by a great Gothic retablo of fifty-five panels and crowned in the vaulting by a most remarkable painting.
The high altar with its retabloand the royal sarcophagi are separated from the rest of the chapel by the most stupendous and magnificent iron screen or reja ever executed.
The most remarkable features in the decoration of the church are, however, the Retablo and the painting on the semi-dome above it.
There is a fine fourteenth-century Retabloto the high altar.
Behind theRetablo some of the old pavement remains, of encaustic tiles in blue, white, and red.
The whole of the work is therefore before this date; and probably the Retablo and the baldachin date from the period between the two dates last given, viz.
On either side of the apse of this church, in front of the Retablo and altar, are what look like two tabernacles for the reservation of the Sacrament: but I had no opportunity of learning the object of this double arrangement.
The columns of the choir arches have been modernized, and there is consequently but little of the old structure visible on the inside, the Retablo rising to the groining, and concealing the arches of the apse.
There is nothing more specially worth noticing in the fabric; but fortunately the choir still retains precious relics in the Retablo behind, and the baldachin above, the high-altar.
Silversmith, who executed part of the Retablo of Gerona Cathedral in A.
Here, as in the chapel of San Ildefonso, the sides of the chapel were each provided with a great canopied tomb, whilst on one side a mediæval carved and painted wooden Retablo to an altar conceals the original altar arrangement.
Retablo and baldachin, were placed where they now stand.
It is true that the magnificent baldachin and Retablo at Gerona, the screens round the Coro at Toledo, and the beautiful painted Retablo in the old cathedral at Salamanca, are earlier than this; but these are exceptions to the rule.
The Gothic retablo is one of the best of the Cathedral.
In the retablo are the painted portraits of Don Alvaro and Doña Juana, painted by Juan of Segovia, and on either side of the altar, under canopied tombs, lie other figures.
There is a fine retablo if there were only light enough to see it by.
The shafts of the transept are in excellent taste, and on one of the lateral altars, under the retablo of painted wood, is a little sculptured Mater Dolorosa by an unknown artist, exquisitely touching and life-like.
The retablo belongs to the same debased form of renaissance, an excess in sculpture, legends in relief and medallion, every kind of architectural fancy a combination of Gothic and classic could suggest.
There is a retablo of St Francis placed by Dr Francisco of Pisa, the historian of Toledo, who is buried outside.
The retablo is remarkable, and in it may be traced the dawning of Siloe's ambition to create a true Spanish Renaissance style.
The retablo of St. Anne's Chapel is also very old, and comes from the former cathedral.
The retablo of the high altar is the quintessence of late Gothic sculpture.
There is a notable retabloby Pedro Roldan that came from a Franciscan convent now suppressed.
The University Church has a notableretablo by Roelas; an Annunciation by Pacheco, and statues of St. Francis of Borja and of Loyola by Montanez.
It is a lovely retablo of azulejos, designed by Franciso Niculoso, an Italian, in 1504.
Crowning the retablo are a crucifix and large statues of the Virgin and St. John.
The retablo of the principal chapel is a gorgeous piece of work upon which many artists expended their labour and skill.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retablo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: altar; altarpiece; credence; frontal; retable
