Built in the 1800s, the church is made of coralline limestone and houses a 19th-century pipe organ and several neoclassical retablos, or
altarpiece.
Tenders are invited for Conservation and restoration of the mural paintings of the presbytery, central nave and north wall of the transept, main
altarpiece and stone
altarpiece of the transept of the Church of the Monastery of San Vicente do Pino in Monforte de Lemos (Lugo).
Sadler examines the late medieval
altarpiece through a miniaturist's lens, for these large polyptychs are inhabited by a teeming group of figures that enact the entire Passion of Christ or scenes from the life of the Virgin.
Unprecedented loans for this exhibition include the three extraordinary reliquaries (Museo di San Marco, Florence) a magnificent
altarpiece of Paradise (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence) and the jewel-like Corsini Triptych (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Palazzo Corsini, Rome).
The gallery has welcomed back Virgin and Child in Glory, a 344-year-old
altarpiece by Bartolome Esteban Murillo, following the major conservation project.
Visitors to the exhibition enter the damp and dark underground space and encounter works by over 20 artists which deal directly with fears associated with involuntary hospitalisation, mental illness and the history of madness: works like Saint Anthony's Fire, featuring details from Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim
Altarpiece projected onto a brick wall.
Commissioned to celebrate the re-installation of the Morris textile
altarpiece, which can be seen in the Lady Chapel, the contemporary works reflect the themes and colours in the embroidery, as well as taking inspiration from the cathedral's stained glass windows, which were also created by the famous 19th century arts and crafts designer.
The exhibition, Visions of Paradise: Botticini's Palmieri
Altarpiece, runs until Valentine's Day.
The first explains how Lippi's
altarpiece, completed sometime around 1457 and currently displayed in Berlin's Staatliche Museen, represents a fundamental shift in the artistic style of the time.
ACROWD-FUNDING campaign has seen The Bowes Museum raise PS21,000 in the nick to time to conserve a 15th Century
altarpiece.
However, this presentation, as is typical of the Frick, also displayed a solid scholarly reevaluation of the remains of the Saint Augustine
Altarpiece (1454-1469), both as a key work in Piero's career and as a hallmark of his early style.
His journey starts at the
altarpiece of Ghent Cathedral, created by the Van Eyck brothers.
altarpiece - a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table