RELIEFS AND CARVINGS OF THE MAIN ALTARPIECE AND COLLATERAL ALTARPIECES

TYPOLOGY 

The late-Gothic pieces preserved in Castillonuevo must have initially been comprised of three different altarpieces. A preliminary examination of the rear of the compartments of the collateral altarpieces (see support section) leads to the conclusion that their reliefs and carvings formed part of two independent pieces of furniture with doors. They were both identical and possessed one single scene, framed, seemingly, by much larger carvings located in a vaulted apsidal space, and delimited between baluster columns and ostentatious late-Gothic tracery. This has been preserved in the Calvary altarpiece but replaced in the Pentecost altarpiece with a Renaissance style vegetal canopy.

For their part, the scenes on the sides of the main altarpiece were integrated into another different structure that has not survived today. This structure was more complex, with at least three reliefs of similar dimensions and an unusual, almost square format, perhaps originally superimposed in several registers.