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Thornham Parva Retable (Book, New)
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Thornham Parva Retable (Book, New)
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The Thornham Parva Retable is Britain's largest and best preserved
medieval altarpiece. It was found in a loft above a stable at
Thornham Hall in Suffolk in 1927. Soon afterwards it was installed
in the small thatched church of St Mary, Thornham Parva. In 1987 a
detailed study of the Retable in-situ and the Cluny Frontal, now in
the Musee National du Moyen Age, Paris, established that both were
parts of the altar which was probably made for the Dominican Priory
at Thetford. It was saved from destruction after the dissolution of
the monasteries in the early 16th century by a local family who
adapted it for use as a private altar. After a sustained period of
fund raising, the Parochial Church Council entrusted the
examination and conservation of the Retable to the Hamilton Kerr
Institute, University of Cambridge. It was moved from the church in
1994. This book documents that project. The results of the
technical examination are complemented by a series of articles
placing the Retable in a technical and art historical context.
Dating of the wooden support suggested that the earliest date of
production was probably 1336-40. The altarpiece can now be seen to
be of the highest quality and has provided new insights into the
sophisticated practice of oil painting in England before the
fifteenth century.
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