retable

Its chief distinction lies in its grand retable, which is decorated with a series of superb paintings by Mignard.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

This is a retable of the conventional orthodox form which occupies the usual place—even in this Protestant church—at the end of the choir.

From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

The retable has two miracle reliefs, and between them a small bronze Christ, which has been put there in error.

From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford

A litany desk, stalls, and credence-table in oak have recently been given, and a retable carved by Miss Neville; the altar cross, however, is too stunted for its position.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Dearmer

She sits on a very beautiful throne, and has a large, rich, and well-gilded retable, given by Antonio Xuarez de Puga, who was many years her steward.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Antonio Alvarez de Abreu