Talk:Retablo

Spanish

It seems that the meaning in Spain (the frames with sculptures behind the altar) is different than in the Americas. --Error 00:41, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Well the meaning in Europe generally - retable in English - is different. More often paintings than sculpture.

Substrate for retablos: I have a collection of retablos; it is my understanding that they type I have were hand painted on tin sheets that were re-used tin cans. During the 19th century the English manufactured tin cans for food stuffs that ended up in Mexico. Itinerant artists were commissioned by people in the countryside to create retablos of their favorite saints or holy families as well as the ex votos which were created for the individual to give thankful prayer for surviving a crisis.

Merge

• Support Merge Clearly the same subject. Johnbod 18:02, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

• Merged. However, the information from Latin American retablos seems to refer to small paintings on tin, and may be different (I'm not sure) from the retablos referred to in this article. Minor cleanup needs to be done to properly fit the imported information into the rest of the article. I'll try to get this done within a week or two, but other editors are more than welcome to do this themselves. Cheers. – Liveste 12:34, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Alternate usage

The term IS, contrary to this article's assertion, also used in English to refer to what is also called a retable (the three dimensional altar back). See the retablo which is in the Serra Chapel in Mission San Juan Capistrano. There is also a new one in the Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano (see news article using the term retablo in English to refer to three dimensional carved altar piece here). See also this Getty museum reference to a retrablo as a three dimensional altar back. I think we need a disambiguation page with one directing to the retable article.Mamalujo (talk) 00:53, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Half the size of the original?

Article says "An ex-voto is, more often than not, reduced to a smaller size. It is usually about half the size of the original" The original what? This text is not clear. Is an ex-voto a copy of something? If so, that is not clear in the article. This error has been here since the merge with "Latin American Retablo". Maybe an admin could view the deleted page from before the merge and fix the error? Robinesque (talk) 01:04, 18 March 2017 (UTC)