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What is a retable?

What is a retable? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A table or shelf behind an altar, on which are placed images or holy objects
  2. A reredos
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This morning a Liberal senator, working with a radical animal rights group, announced his plans to retable a bill to end the seal hunt.
The earliest documented Latin American sculptural work was in the retable in the monastery church at Huejotzingo, Mexico, assembled in 1586 by the Spaniard Pedro de Requeña.
In the ancient Abbey Church are two masterpieces, a retable in carved wood and a tomb ornamented with exquisite statuettes.
The candlesticks, in churches where lights at the Holy Communion are used, stand at the ends of the retable.
The entire piece is supported by a predella on the altar, which raises the retable from the altar table.
By the late Gothic period in Spain, the retable filled the end of the church up to the vaulting, and, of course, at this size it could no longer be moved.

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