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retable retable
retable , frame for decorative panels at the back of an altar in European churches. 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.... Read more
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altarpiece. A picture, sculpture, screen, decorated wall, or combination of any of these, standing on or behind an altar in a Christian church. Altarpieces vary enormously in size and conception, from tiny portable pictures to huge structures embracing the arts of architecture, sculpture, and... Read more
Melchior Broederlam Melchior Broederlam
Melchior Broederlam , active c.1381-1409, Franco-Flemish painter. Broederlam was among the first practitioners of the International Gothic style (see Gothic architecture and art ). He was court painter after 1387 to Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy. Broederlam attempted to place figures in... Read more
George Jenkins George Jenkins
JENKINS, George Art Director. Nationality:American. Born:Baltimore, Maryland, 19 November 1908. Education:Studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1931. Family:Married Phyllis Adams, 1955; one daughter by a previous ... Read more
Cosimo Rosselli Cosimo Rosselli
Cosimo Rosselli , 1439-1507, Florentine painter. He was one of the artists summoned to Rome by Sixtus IV to assist in decorating the Sistine Chapel . He painted The Last Supper and other subjects for it. Of his many works in Florence the most famous is The Miracle-working Chalice in Sant'... Read more
Augeas Augeas
Augeas , in Greek mythology, son of Helios and king of Elis. He kept his huge herds of cattle in the Augean Stables. As his sixth labor, Hercules cleaned the stables in one day by diverting the course of a river (possibly the Alpheus) through them.... Read more
Ludus Coventriae Ludus Coventriae
Ludus Coventriae , one of four extant cycles of English miracle plays. In the 17th cent. it was mistakenly designated as originating in the town of Coventry. Because of its stylistic distinction from other Coventry plays, the Ludus Coventriae is presently believed to have been produced by a... Read more
Epimenides Epimenides
Epimenides , fl. 6th cent.? BC, Cretan prophet and miracle worker. According to one story, he was called to Athens to purify the city after the murder of Cylon on the Acropolis. Many poems, oracles, and sayings were attributed to him (Titus 1.12 is supposed to contain one of these).... Read more
Towneley Plays Towneley Plays
Towneley Plays a cycle of 32 plays preserved in a manuscript of c.1460 by the Towneleys, a Lancashire family. Intended for production by the guilds of Wakefield, they are sometimes called the Wakefield Plays. The well-known Second Shepherds' Play is one of this collection. See miracle play .... Read more

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