In painting, Dürer had relatively little influence in Italy, where probably only his altarpiece in Venice was seen, and his German successors were less effective in blending German and Italian styles.

Despite the prohibition he went to Münnerstadt in 1504, to paint and gild the altarpiece that Tilman Riemenschneider had left in plain wood ten years earlier, presumably according to his contract ( unlike Stoss, his workshop did not include painters and guilders ).

This was a much larger and more important commission than any he had received before ; he had only painted one altarpiece in Florence itself.

His old patron Jakob Meyer paid him to add figures and details to the family altarpiece he had painted in 1526.

He also drew and painted numerous copies after Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and other artists of the Renaissance but, contrary to conventional practice, he usually selected from an altarpiece a detail that had caught his attention — a secondary figure, or a head which he treated as a portrait.

Rarely was any thought given to the artistic heritage of these cities, though families were sometimes able to protect the church monuments of their ancestors, and in Delft the syndics of the painters ' Guild of Saint Luke were able to rescue the altarpiece by Maarten van Heemskerck, which the guild had commissioned only 15 years earlier.

The Utraquist churches had retained the use of relics and images in church, but Scultetus now launched an iconoclastic crusade against images: beginning on 21 December 1619, images were removed from St. Vitus Cathedral, and on 27 – 28 December, a famous altarpiece by Lucas Cranach the Younger depicting the Virgin Mary was destroyed.

By 1593, Annibale had completed an altarpiece, Virgin on the throne with St John and St Catherine, in collaboration with Lucio Massari.

Yepes mentioned that there was an altarpiece, now lost, in the chapel of the Holy Child of La Guardia in the town, which Alonso de Fonseca, archbishop of Toledo, had ordered to be painted, representing the scenes of the abduction, prosecution, scourging and crucifixion of the child, as well as the apprehension and execution of his murderers.

Charles had at least one Italian altarpiece, apparently made in Italy and sent to Prague, near where it remains today in his showpiece Karlštejn Castle.

The interior houses a notable altar dedicated to the Madonna, in the right aisle, and the altarpiece of patriarch Pellegrinus II ( 1195 − 1204 ), a silver retable which had been inscribed in Latin by the means of individual letter punches, 250 years before the invention of modern movable type printing by Johannes Gutenberg.

Following Annibale Carracci's death in 1609, Annibale's Bolognese pupils, foremost Domenichino, Albani, Reni and Lanfranco, became the leading painters in Rome ( Caravaggio had left Rome in 1606 and his followers there did not compete successfully with the Bolognese for fresco or altarpiece commissions ).

The Diocesan Museum of Jaca ( Museum of Medieval Sacred Art ) protects Romanesque and Gothic frescoes from some of the most remote locations in the district of Jaca, unsuspected until the first one was discovered in the Church of Urriés, in 1962, where it had been hidden and protected by the painted and gilded retable, or altarpiece.

There was controversy before the church was consecrated because Bodley intended to use an early 16th-century altarpiece from Antwerp which had carved tableaux of the Passion as the reredos.

The painting was commissioned as the high altarpiece for the Church of Santissima Annunziata in Florence and its theme had long preoccupied Leonardo.

Diego de Muros, founder of the great college at Salamanca known as the Oviedo, had the crestings of the porch wrought by Pedro de Bunyeres and Juan de Cerecedo, while Giralte de Bruselas and Juan de Balmaseda completed in the years 1512 to 1517 the carving of the precious altarpiece ordered by Valeriano Órdoñez de Villaquirán.

According to Karel van Mander, Mostaert was born in Haarlem and had been a pupil of Jacob van Haarlem, the painter that painted the altarpiece of the Carrier's guild there in the St. Bavochurch.

In 1477, when he was incorrectly claimed to have been killed, he was under contract to create an altarpiece for the gild-chapel of the booksellers of Bruges.

Critical opinion has been generally unanimous in assigning this altarpiece to Memling.

The clearest evidence of the connection of the two masters is that afforded by pictures, particularly an altarpiece, which has alternately been assigned to each of them, and which may be due to their joint labours.

Other distinguished works from Ghirlandaio's hand are an altarpiece in tempera of the Virgin Adored by Saints Zenobius, Justus and Others, painted for the church of Saint Justus, and considered a remarkable masterpiece — in modern times it has been in the Uffizi gallery.

The triptych of paintings on the altarpiece panel may have originally been part of a set of five paintings, are late 15th Century Flemish, and are attributed to the ' master of the View of St Gudule '.

Although strongly identified as an altarpiece form, triptychs outside that context have been created, some of the best-known examples being works by Hieronymus Bosch, Max Beckmann, and Francis Bacon.

Of his early polyptychs, only one, the altarpiece from Ascoli Piceno, survives complete in its original frame ; all the others have been disassembled and their panels and predella scenes are divided among the world's museums.

Two paintings of angels playing musical instruments are believed to have been part of the composition that was set into the altarpiece.

On the basis of the style of the triptych, a number of other paintings have been attributed to him, including two dated versions of the Presentation in the Temple, one in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum ( 1445 ) and another in the Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt ( 1447 ); two wings from an altarpiece, with images of saints ( now in the National Gallery, London and the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne ), and an altarpiece from the church of St Lorenz, now divided between three museums.

The altarpiece is in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery who own the main panel ; the wings have been loaned by the National Gallery, who also have a Virgin and Child.

While the cathedral suffered financial hardship, having been forced to give away all its property ( which at the time included one in every four farms on Zealand and 30 large estates ), it was endowed with a variety of gifts from Christian IV: The altarpiece ( between 1555 and 1623 ), a royal box ca 1600, the pulpit in 1610, his own burial chapel in 1614, the construction of the iconic twin spires in 1633 and finally a grand Renaissance sandstone entrance portal in 1635.

There is a gilded altarpiece which was brought and installed from Segovia in 1967. the rest of the church is very sparse and has been heavily restored due to the extreme damage done to the church by iconoclast Republicans during the Spanish Civil War of 1936 who viewed the church as a hotbed of sedition.

His works suggest some influence from the late work of Ludovico Carracci, a cousin of Agostino and Annibale, and possibly from Caravaggio ( as, for example, in the altarpiece depicting the Inspiration of Saint Luke at Piacenza ( 1611 )), though the stylistic importance of Caravaggio to Lanfranco has been disputed.

Because these were taken to the museums in Berlin and Munich in the 19th century, the reconstruction of the original altarpiece has been difficult.

Goya's works from 1814 to 1819 are mostly commissioned portraits, but also include the altarpiece of Santa Justa and Santa Rufina for the Cathedral of Seville, the print series of La Tauromaquia depicting scenes from bullfighting, and probably the etchings of Los Disparates.

On November 26, 1510 Pier Soderini commissioned him an altarpiece for the Sala del Consiglio of Florence, now in the Museum of San Marco.

On February 19, 1426 Masaccio was commissioned by Giuliano di Colino degli Scarsi da San Giusto, for the sum of 80 florins, to paint a major altarpiece, the Pisa Altarpiece, for his chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Pisa.

In 1504 he was commissioned to paint an altarpiece in memory of another condottiere, Matteo Costanzo, in the cathedral of his native town, Castelfranco.

In 1527, King Manuel I commissioned Nicolau Chanterene to build an altarpiece for the chapel ; this retable was considered one of his finest works.

A great altarpiece tryptych by William Hogarth was commissioned in 1756 to fill the east end of the chancel.

In 1513 the monks of St. Sixtus commissioned Raphael to produce the world famous altarpiece known as the Sistine Madonna but sold it in 1754 to Augustus III of Poland.

This altarpiece was commissioned by Count Alessandro Martinengo-Coleoni, grandson of the famous condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni.

The Arezzo Polyptych, also referred to as the Aretine Polyptych, is an altarpiece that was commissioned by the bishop Guido Tarlati, for the Santa Maria della Pieve, Arezzo.

A triptych altarpiece, Birth of the Virgin was commissioned for the Siena Cathedral and completed in 1342 by Pietro Lorenzetti.

Duccio's high altarpiece, the Maesta, was commissioned in 1308.

The Carmelite altarpiece by Pietro Lorezetti was a polyptych commissioned for the Carmelite order monks in 1329.

His brother Robert at Naples who owed his crown to Louis commissioned a great altarpiece from Simone Martini, depicting Louis with that other saint in the family, Louis IX of France.

In the 1470s he commissioned the Donne Triptych, an triptych altarpiece by Hans Memling now in the National Gallery, London.

In 1719 he commissioned the Italian painter Francesco Solimena to execute both the altarpiece for the Palace Chapel and the ceiling fresco in the Golden Room.

Among his most important paintings is the " Triptych of Virtue of Patience " ( Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels ), also called the Job altarpiece, commissioned in 1521 by Margaret of Austria to illustrate a poem she wrote about the virtue of patience.

The third chapel to the left is the Cappella della Santissima Trinità, commissioned initially by the clerical patron Pirro Taro, is named due to the main altarpiece by Francesco Bassano the Younger.

The subject of the commissioned altarpiece was apparently to be closely related to the Immaculate Conception.

The most famous example of the Maestà is the Maestà with Twenty Angels and Nineteen Saints, an altarpiece comprising many individual paintings commissioned by the city of Siena in 1308 from the artist Duccio di Buoninsegna.

It is not known whether " The Garden " was intended as an altarpiece, but the general view is that the extreme subject matter of the inner center and right panels make it unlikely that it was intended to function in a church or monastery, but was instead commissioned by a lay patron.

His most famous surviving work is the Portinari Triptych ( Uffizi, Florence ), an altarpiece commissioned for the church of San Egidio in the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence by Tommaso Portinari, the manager of the Bruges branch of the Medici Bank.

Piero resolves the difficulty of dealing with a flat solid gilded background, requested by the patrons, by placing the kneeling members of the confraternity ( who commissioned the altarpiece ) in the realistic three-dimensional space created by the Madonna's mantle, a space resembling the apse of a church.