Roque de Balduque
The Cáceres Retable

1547-51
Cáceres Cathedral, Cáceres, Spain

This type of altarpiece, a polyptych with statues and reliefs rather than paintings, was popular in Spain and its colonies in the Renaissance and Baroque eras. See the following pages for commentary on the individual sections:

• The Annunciation
• The Battle of Clavijo and Joachim & Anne at the Golden Gate
• The Nativity
• Christ Scourged, Carries the Cross
• The Assumption
• Faith and Charity
• The Birth of Mary
• The Descent from the Cross and the Resurrection
• The Coronation of Mary

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