Not exactly the answer but if it would help I think the alterpiece you're referring to is called a 'retable'. It could be a triptych or multipanelled. Perhaps if you follow up 'retable' you might find the terms you're looking for?
On 28/04/2010, at 3:00 PM, Sanders McNew wrote:
Having exhausted my other resources, I turn to this Most Learned Group for guidance. I have seen, somewhere, the Latin terms for the left, center, and right panels of an altar triptych. For the life of me I cannot remember where, or otherwise dig them up on the web. Can someone help me out here? And if no one knows the terms, can someone give me a Latin translation for these English terms (right panel, center panel, left panel)? Would they be "tabula dextra," "tabula media," "tabula sinistra"? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? Anybody? --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
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