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Triptych   /trˈɪptɪk/   Listen
Triptych

noun
(pl. triptychs)
1.
Art consisting of a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on three panels (usually hinged together).






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"Triptych" Quotes from Famous Books



... the University Chapel, Freiburg Minster. These latter are the only known works of Holbein that still hang in a sacred edifice. They were evidently designed to fold in upon a central altar-piece with an arched top, thus making, when open, the usual triptych; but the central painting has vanished. This large work was a gift to the Carthusian monastery in Klein-Basel; and the arms of the donor, Hans Oberriedt, are displayed below the Nativity, as well as the portraits of himself and his six sons. Below the corresponding right wing, the Adoration, ...
— Holbein • Beatrice Fortescue

... said of his "make-up" as Charles I. Edwin Long painted him a triptych of Vandyck heads, which he always had in his dressing-room, and which is now in my possession. He used to come on to the stage looking precisely like the Vandyck portraits, but not because he had been busy building up his face with wig-paste and similar atrocities. His make-up ...
— The Story of My Life - Recollections and Reflections • Ellen Terry



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