Behind the Altar Table: The Development of the Painted Retable in Spain, 1350-1500 - Hardcover

Sobre, Judith Berg

 
9780826206961: Behind the Altar Table: The Development of the Painted Retable in Spain, 1350-1500

Synopsis

In this book the author undertakes the first comprehensive study of retables (multi-panelled altar decoration) which were common throughout Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Those in Spain called retablos, and were by far the largest and most elaborate. This book examines the cultural and religious background of retables, the methods used to paint them and the purposes they served. Scarce

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