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English translation: Rhenish or Rhineland altarpieces or Altarpieces of the Rhineland ( and, arcanely, reredoses may be substituted for altarpieces.)


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French term or phrase:dans les retables rhénans
English translation:Rhenish or Rhineland altarpieces or Altarpieces of the Rhineland ( and, arcanely, reredoses may be substituted for altarpieces.)
Entered by: Elizabeth Lyons
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23:34 Aug 15, 2005
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / novel
French term or phrase: dans les retables rhénans
Pour elle, je cherchai un tissu plus rouge etplus doux que la marmelade d'églantine. Et se mêlaient dans ma mémoire une écharpe de laine, les voiles de la sculpture indienne et le perisonium du Christ, petit ange des langes, dans les retables rhénans.
Amber Shields
Local time: 11:27
the altar-piece of the Rhineland
Explanation:
Or the Rhenish altar-piece.

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...in the Rhenish alter-piece/in the altar-piece of the..., etc.

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As Sporran pointed out: altar-pieceS and typo above- altar, not alter. (time to put my glasses on) : )

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Thousands of links; here are some for starters:

... twenty-five Rhenish guilders as soon as he has begun to paint this altarpiece,
and further, twenty-five Rhenish guilders during the next half year, ...
www.ku.edu/~sma/ha575/review/bouts/bouts.htm - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

575bib
The Ghent Altarpiece and the Art of Jan van Eyck. Princeton, 1971. Purtle, Carol.
... (Rhenish art, Lochner, Moser, Multscher, Witz) ...
www.ku.edu/~sma/ha575/nrbib.htm - 51k - Cached - Similar pages

RICE UNIVERSITY
... of twenty silvers each: to wit, twenty-five Rhenish guilders as soon as he has begun
to paint this altarpiece, and further, twenty-five Rhenish guilders during ...
www.owlnet.rice.edu/~hart332/11-05.html - 36k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages

Staedel-Museum english: Mittelrheinischer Meister
Middle Rhenish Master (active ca. 1330/50) ... The two wings of the altarpiece
from the Premonstratensian Abbey Altenberg near Wetzlar were originally fixed ...
www.staedelmuseum.de/index.php?id=467 - 12k - Cached - Similar pages

Colmar: Information From Answers.com
... is outstanding; it contains the Isenheim altarpiece by Mathias Grünewald and
numerous masterpieces of the Rhenish school of the 15th cent. ...
www.answers.com/topic/colmar-1 - 32k - Cached - Similar pages


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A Routledge Journal: Visual Resources - Table of Contents
Krautheimer and the Marketplace: Vernacular Copies of Antwerp Compound Altarpieces
in the Rhineland 199 Yao-Fen You. “A Good Head for Business”: Evidence ...
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/archive/gvir-con.asp - 28k - Aug 14, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

Art Bulletin, The: US and Canadian dissertations, 2004
YOU, YAO-FEN, \"Import/Exports: Antwerp Carved Altarpieces in the Rhineland c.
1500-30\" (Michigan, C. Brusati). South/Southeast Asian Art ...
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ mi_m0422/is_2_87/ai_n14814125/pg_20 - 30k - Cached - Similar pages

CAA | Publications | Dissertations begun 2001
YOU, YAO-FEN, \"Import/Export: A Case Study of Antwerp Altarpieces in the Rhineland,
... FASSL, JOHANNA, \"The Altarpieces of Giambattista Tiepolo: Vision and ...
www.collegeart.org/caa/publications/ AB/dissertations/begun01.html - 90k - Aug 14, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

VRA-L Archives -- August 2004 (#136)
... Yao-Fen You, Krautheimer, the Marketplace, and Transcultural Practices: Vernacular
Copies of Antwerp Compound Altarpieces in the Rhineland. ...
listserv.uark.edu/scripts/ wa.exe?A2=ind0408&L=vra-l&D=0&P=14783 - 14k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages

Newsletter
Yao-Fen You, \"Krautheimer, the Marketplace, and Transcultural Practices: Vernacular
Copies of Antwerp Compound Altarpieces in the Rhineland.\" ...
www.uml.edu/Dept/History/ ArtHistory/ATSAH/newsletter.htm - 21k - Cached - Similar pages

sunday
Selected response from:

Elizabeth Lyons
United States
Local time: 09:27
Grading comment
Thanks, Elizabeth. I agree that reredoses is too obscure a word in English. There are already a lot of things in this book that many people may need to look up (I know I would!); may as well spare them some time with this one!
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Summary of answers provided
3 +6the altar-piece of the Rhineland
Elizabeth Lyons
5 +2Rhineland reredosesxxxJane Lamb-Ru


Discussion entries: 1





  

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55 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
dans les retables rhénans
Rhineland reredoses


Explanation:
retable en anglais..a reredos

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two examples, there are many more

The Altar Reredos. The altar beneath this window contains many Gothic-like lines
which are high and pointed. Numerous reredos depicting several religious ...
www.fordham.edu/halsall/medny/trinity1.html - Similar pages

Gloria Dei: The Chancel and High Altar
The reredos of the altar is in wood, surrounding the center mural of Christ, ...
In the upper frieze of the altar reredos are four figures carved in wood ...
www.gloriadeistpaul.org/The_Chancel.html - 16k - Cached - Similar pages

St John the Evangelist - Newbury, Berkshire - Dykes Bower Churches
London, Saint Nicholas Plumstead: High Altar Reredos. London, Saint Paul\'s
Cathedral: High Altar Baldacchino; American War Memorial Chapel ...
www.saintjohn.co.uk/section/11 - 61k - Cached - Similar pages



xxxJane Lamb-Ru
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: Yes, though the adjective Rhenish works slightly better, I think.... // I couldn't agree more! Why should we always have to 'dumb down'? 'reredos' is a word I use very often...
6 hrs
  -> For the record, reredos is not arcane....ha ha

agree  Amy Williams: Rhenish reredoses... Try saying that when you've had a few drinks
9 hrs
  -> ha ha
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +6
dans les retables rhénans
the altar-piece of the Rhineland


Explanation:
Or the Rhenish altar-piece.

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Note added at 11 mins (2005-08-15 23:46:37 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

...in the Rhenish alter-piece/in the altar-piece of the..., etc.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 27 mins (2005-08-16 00:02:04 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

As Sporran pointed out: altar-pieceS and typo above- altar, not alter. (time to put my glasses on) : )

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 19 hrs 22 mins (2005-08-16 18:56:50 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Thousands of links; here are some for starters:

... twenty-five Rhenish guilders as soon as he has begun to paint this altarpiece,
and further, twenty-five Rhenish guilders during the next half year, ...
www.ku.edu/~sma/ha575/review/bouts/bouts.htm - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

575bib
The Ghent Altarpiece and the Art of Jan van Eyck. Princeton, 1971. Purtle, Carol.
... (Rhenish art, Lochner, Moser, Multscher, Witz) ...
www.ku.edu/~sma/ha575/nrbib.htm - 51k - Cached - Similar pages

RICE UNIVERSITY
... of twenty silvers each: to wit, twenty-five Rhenish guilders as soon as he has begun
to paint this altarpiece, and further, twenty-five Rhenish guilders during ...
www.owlnet.rice.edu/~hart332/11-05.html - 36k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages

Staedel-Museum english: Mittelrheinischer Meister
Middle Rhenish Master (active ca. 1330/50) ... The two wings of the altarpiece
from the Premonstratensian Abbey Altenberg near Wetzlar were originally fixed ...
www.staedelmuseum.de/index.php?id=467 - 12k - Cached - Similar pages

Colmar: Information From Answers.com
... is outstanding; it contains the Isenheim altarpiece by Mathias Grünewald and
numerous masterpieces of the Rhenish school of the 15th cent. ...
www.answers.com/topic/colmar-1 - 32k - Cached - Similar pages


--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 19 hrs 23 mins (2005-08-16 18:57:58 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

A Routledge Journal: Visual Resources - Table of Contents
Krautheimer and the Marketplace: Vernacular Copies of Antwerp Compound Altarpieces
in the Rhineland 199 Yao-Fen You. “A Good Head for Business”: Evidence ...
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/archive/gvir-con.asp - 28k - Aug 14, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

Art Bulletin, The: US and Canadian dissertations, 2004
YOU, YAO-FEN, \"Import/Exports: Antwerp Carved Altarpieces in the Rhineland c.
1500-30\" (Michigan, C. Brusati). South/Southeast Asian Art ...
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ mi_m0422/is_2_87/ai_n14814125/pg_20 - 30k - Cached - Similar pages

CAA | Publications | Dissertations begun 2001
YOU, YAO-FEN, \"Import/Export: A Case Study of Antwerp Altarpieces in the Rhineland,
... FASSL, JOHANNA, \"The Altarpieces of Giambattista Tiepolo: Vision and ...
www.collegeart.org/caa/publications/ AB/dissertations/begun01.html - 90k - Aug 14, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

VRA-L Archives -- August 2004 (#136)
... Yao-Fen You, Krautheimer, the Marketplace, and Transcultural Practices: Vernacular
Copies of Antwerp Compound Altarpieces in the Rhineland. ...
listserv.uark.edu/scripts/ wa.exe?A2=ind0408&L=vra-l&D=0&P=14783 - 14k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages

Newsletter
Yao-Fen You, \"Krautheimer, the Marketplace, and Transcultural Practices: Vernacular
Copies of Antwerp Compound Altarpieces in the Rhineland.\" ...
www.uml.edu/Dept/History/ ArtHistory/ATSAH/newsletter.htm - 21k - Cached - Similar pages

sunday


Elizabeth Lyons
United States
Local time: 09:27
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thanks, Elizabeth. I agree that reredoses is too obscure a word in English. There are already a lot of things in this book that many people may need to look up (I know I would!); may as well spare them some time with this one!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  sporran: but 'in Rhineland altarpieces'
5 mins
  -> Yup, you're right, plural - too quick. Thank you so much for that Sporran : )

agree  Nick Lingris
33 mins
  -> Hi Nick, thank you. :)

agree  Simon Charass
49 mins
  -> Simon, thanks : )

agree  xxxPFB
5 hrs
  -> Philippe,thanks : )

agree  Sheila Hardie: yes, Rhineland altarpieces
9 hrs
  -> Thanks Sheila

agree  Rachel Ward: I think altar-pieces is better because "reredoses" looks so odd!
11 hrs
  -> I agree, not very common in English at all : ) Thank you.
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