| But what strikes most visitors is the dramatic altar and reredos, or carved altarpiece, with tall statues of saints backed by scarlet curtains. |
| He received a commission for the altarpiece, to be painted for the royally patronized convent church in Madrid. |
| The central panel of this intact triptych altarpiece depicts the Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, together with other saints, flanked by donors. |
| The Getty drawing must have been made in connection with a project for a painting, presumably an altarpiece, though no such picture is known. |
| It has been demonstrated that the iconography of the Del Sarto altarpiece reflects Franciscan doctrine and artistic conventions. |
| Several authors, for example, observed that Rubens consciously painted the altarpiece for the Oratorians in Rome in the style of Paolo Veronese. |
