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Winged altarpiece

A winged altarpiece or winged retable is a special form of altarpiece, common in Northern and Central Europe, in which the central image, either a painting or relief sculpture can be hidden by hinged wings. It is called a triptych if there are two wings, a pentaptych if there are four, or a polyptych if there are four or more. The technical terms are derived from Ancient Greek: τρίς: trís or "triple"; πέντε: pénte or "five"; πολύς: polýs or "many"; and πτυχή: ptychē or "fold, layer".

Examples
in Schneeberg: painted panels • Pacher Altar of St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut • Kefermarkt Altarpiece in Kefermarkt • Krakow High Altar in St. Mary's Basilica by Veit Stoß. • Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck • Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald • Herrenberg Altarpiece, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart • Antwerp Retable • The largest collection of medieval reredoses in Germany is to be found in St. Anne's Abbey, Lübeck, including the Passion Altarpiece by Hans Memling and the Schonen Altarpiece by Bernt Notke with 157 individual scenes, displayed in the Ducal Museum in Gotha • The Last Judgment by Hans Memling, Gdańsk • Schwabach Altarpiece in the Church of St. John and St. Martin in Schwabach, a high altar from the workshop of Michael Wolgemut • The Altar Wings of Roudníky • Altar of Saint Mary, Alpirsbach Abbey == Literature ==
Literature
• Herbert Schindler: The Schnitzaltar. Meisterwerke und Meister in Süddeutschland, Österreich und Südtirol. Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1978. • Karl-Werner Bachmann, Géza Jászai, Friedrich Kobler, Catheline Périer-D'Ieteren, Barbara Rommé, Norbert Wolf: Flügelretabel, in: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte, Vol. 9, 2003, , cols. 1450–1536. == See also ==
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