48 The Holy Cross retable winged angels head in relief (Fig. 71). In the centre of the lunette pediment, a cartouche with the painting of God the Father and rich scrollwork ornamentation and accompanying putti was placed. Even the predella obeys the architectural principle, enhancing the central niche with a lower middle area and the two protruding postaments that carry the semi-columns. To the sides these postaments step back to support the fluted pilaster. The inner walls of the niche are decorated with a series of “Arma Christi” paintings, five on each side, four on the lintel, all framed with a gilded moulding in a regular sequence thus forming a coffered reveal (Fig. 70). Fig. 72: Holy Cross retable, stipes, mensa and suppedaneum; the supporting posts are of later date Fig. 71: Central motif of the columns
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