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US
/ˈtɹɪptɪk/
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[ UK /tɹˈɪptɪtʃ/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈɪptɪtʃ/ ]
NOUN
- art consisting of a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on three panels (usually hinged together)
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.