Retablo
![Mexican oil paint on tin retablo of 'Our Lady of Guadalupe', 19th century, El Paso Museum of Art](/Images/godic/202502/07/Mexican_oil_paint_on_tin_retablo_of_'Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe',_19th_century,_El_Paso_Museum_of_Art1150.JPG")
![Mexican ex-voto of 1935 - survival of a stabbing; Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos again.](/Images/godic/202502/07/Our_Lady_of_San_Juan_de_los_Lagos_votive_19351150.jpg")
![A Baroque carved wood retablo in the original Spanish sense, Tenerife.](/Images/godic/202502/07/Puerto_Iglesia051150.jpg")
![Mexican oil on copper retablo of the traditional subject of the Man of Sorrows, 17th century.](/Images/godic/202502/07/Mexican_oil_paint_on_copper_retablo,_17th_century,_El_Paso_Museum_of_Art1150.JPG")
A retablo in Mexican folk art (also lámina) is a devotional painting, especially a small popular or folk art one using iconography derived from traditional Catholic church art. In Spain and other Spanish speaking countries and the Philippines the word is used in a different, though related sense: a retablo is equivalent to reredos in English or retable in French: a painting, sculpture or combination of the two, rising behind the altar of a church. The Latin etymology of this Spanish word means "board behind".