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. |