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Quite a rare form of art.

Sandra Elliot-Cortes

Most paintings are viewed hung on a wall, but a scene of your choosing can be painted of any size of 4 to 12 canvas covered panels. Placed together they form a scene, like pieces of a puzzle and are viewed laying flat on a table. Separated the larger sizes (11"x14" or 12"x16")
become place mats for a dining room table, and the smaller sizes (4"x5" or 4"x6") become coasters for a coffee table. Varnished on both sides, they are completely waterproof. The painting of a rose garden is an example of
six, 12"x16" panels placed horizontally to form the scene. Separated they can be used as place mats. Matching napkins are hand painted with a motif of roses from the larger scene. The third image shows six panels, 4"x6" of a coral reef used as coasters.

Can be seen with nice pictures at
www.artgods.com/selliotcortes/ -

Tafelbilder - panel paintings - were often used as altarpieces. They sometimes consist of two or three connected pieces.


1. AH 330 (Hutchison): Painting in Cologne: Stefan Lochner
... Dürer regarded this as the most important panel painting in Cologne: the Altarpiece of the Patron Saints (commonly known today as the "Dombild" because it has ...


2. Cuno
... from the fourth century BC, an Italian Renaissance panel painting, a drawing by Rembrandt, an engraving by Dürer, a painted self-portrait by Van Gogh, and an ...

In art history, the French word is used. (not "tableau picture")

Generally painted on wood.

The word Tafelbilder is, of course, plural.
Tafelbild is singular. I meant to say:

Tafelbilder refer to ...

Sorry for any confusion.