triptych

How To Use triptych In A Sentence

• While not as powerful as their influential triptych, these two films are still overripe offerings of cinematic salaciousness.
• [51] A picture with one door of two panels is called a diptych, with two doors of three panels a triptych, with many doors and panels a polyptych. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art
• The central panel of this intact triptych altarpiece depicts the Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, together with other saints, flanked by donors.
• Neither panels, as wings of a triptych, are of course signed, but they witness to a feature of El Greco's life - the production of multiple versions of the same scenes.
• The Third Symphony from 1950 is a musical triptych on the Life of Christ.
• This triptych effect works perfectly because it allows for steady climax, then applause. Times, Sunday Times
• A codex of two leaves was called a diptych; of three, a triptych, etc. Illuminated Manuscripts
• One of the first images one comes across when entering the gallery space is a triptych of a class portrait, interrupted by the central panel depicting a plant form.
• The wee man was a big artist, producing some huge works including a triptych around two metres high.
• Van Eyck's extant single-panel portraits are all decorated on the reverse, whereas the central panels of his surviving triptychs are not.