triptych

(noun)

A picture or series of pictures painted on three tablets connected by hinges.

Related Terms

  • illusionism
  • reliquary
  • Deesis
  • icon
  • psalter
  • tempera
  • cloisonne
  • polyptych

Examples of triptych in the following topics:

  • Objects of Worship in the Middle Byzantine Empire

    • The Harbaville Triptych depicts a scene of Deesis with Christ as the Pantokrator, while the Borradaile Triptych depicts an image of the Crucifixion.
    • The Harbaville Triptych is an early example from the mid-tenth century of the new ivory triptychs that replaced diptychs during the Middle Byzantine period.
    • The Borradaile Triptych's main image depicts the Crucifixion of Christ instead of a Deesis.
    • The figures on the wings are images of saints, similar to the Harbaville Triptych.
    • Like triptychs, psalters were small, private objects used for private devotion and worship.
  • Flemish Painting in the Northern Renaissance

    • One of his best known works, the Merode Altarpiece, is a triptych that depicts an Annunciation Scene.
    • Highly successful in his lifetime, his surviving works are mainly religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned portraits.
    • The Merode Altarpiece is a triptych that features the Archangel Gabriel approaching Mary, who is reading in a well-decorated, typical middle class Flanders home.
  • German Painting in the Northern Renaissance

    • It is an intensely emotional work that continues the German Gothic tradition of unrestrained gesture and expression, using Renaissance compositional principles, but all in that most Gothic of forms, the multi-winged triptych.
    • This work is intensely emotional and continues the German Gothic tradition of unrestrained gesture and expression, using Renaissance compositional principles, but all in that most Gothic of forms, the multi-winged triptych.
  • Wood Sculpture

    • The altar at in Kraków was not completed until 1489, and was the largest triptych of its time and, like his other large works, required a large workshop including specialized painters and gilders.
  • Portugal and West Africa

    • Henry the Navigator in 15th century triptych of St.
  • Romanesque Sculpture

    • The Stavelot Triptych and Reliquary of St.
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