Diptych
A diptych is any object with two flat plates attached at a hinge. Devices of this form were quite popular in the ancient world, types existing for recording notes and for measuring time and direction.
diptych
An artwork having two panels either hinged together, or simply displayed as a pair. The works can be hung edge to edge or with some space between them depending on the intent.
Diptych
A painting done in two, individual panels with each part being complete in itself but when presented together forming a larger, fully integrated work.
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Diptych
An artwork on two panels hung together. Historically, a diptych refers to a two-paneled painting or bas-relief attached at a hinge.
DIPTYCH two painted panels that are usually hinged together.
DONOR a client or patron of an artist who donates the work to an institution; in altarpieces the donor and family were often included in the painting.
Diptych (dip'tik) - A painting done in two separate panels. Each part is a complete work in itself, but when presented together they form a larger fully integrated work.
diptych - Two separate paintings which are attached by hinges or other means, displayed as one artwork.
diptych - A picture or bas-relief made of two panels hinged together, often an altarpiece. Also, any picture consisting of two individual surfaces. Also, an ancient Roman or Early Christian two-hinged writing tablet, or two ivory memorial panels.
Diptych Portrait of Battista Sforza (1472)
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Diptych
A painting or relief carving on two hinged panels, usually an ALTARPIECE.
Direct Painting
The same as ALLA PRIMA.
Diptych
A diptych refers to a painting, engraving, drawing or relief that is composed of two distinct parts, as compared to a polyptych, which has two or more parts.
Diptych
A painting or carving on two panels
Display
Something shown to the public; a visual representation of something ...
Diptych: Painting usually an altarpiece made up of two hinged panels
Disegno: See under design.
Divisionism: Another name given by Georges Seurat to what is now caIIed Pointillism, based on the viewer's optical mixing of dots of colour.
Diptych
Artwork on two panels hung together. Historically, two-paneled painting or bas-relief hinged together.
Distortion ...
diptych in medieval art a picture, often an altarpiece, consisting of two folding wings without a fixed central area. Dominicans A Roman Catholic order of mendicant friars founded by St.
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Wilton Diptych (detail),
Unknown Artist, 1395-99
Egg tempera on wood
Egg tempera
The Wilson Diptych is a small folding altarpiece, which is presumed to have been commissioned by King Richard II of England for his private devotions.
Consular diptych, Constantinople 506, in fully Late Antique style
Ottonian relief from an altar in a bold monumental style, with little attempt at classicism; Milan 962-973.
Two parts = diptych
Three parts = triptych
Four parts = tetraptych
Five parts = pentaptych
Six parts = hexaptych
Seven parts = heptaptych
Eight parts = octaptych
Four or more parts is also called a polyptych.
Crucifixion Diptych. c.1460-1465. Oil on panel. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Pieta. Oil on panel. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
St. Jerome. c.1460 (?) Oil on panel. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA.
On the consular diptychs, see H. F. Clinton, Fasti Romani (1845-1850); A. Gori, Thesaurus veterum diptychorum (1759); C. Lenormant, Tresor de numismatique et de glyptique (1834-1846); F. Pulszky, Catalogue of the Fejervdry Ivories (1856).
‘Marilyn Diptych '
(silkscreen on canvas, 1962)
Tate Gallery, London ...
diptych - a painting in two parts, related in subject and displayed side by side or stacked *
distortion - stretching, curving or constriction of one or more dimensions in the depiction of an object; compare: anamorphous ...
The portrait of Durer's mother (1452-1514), together with the portrait of his father, also called Albrecht, was part of a diptych that appears as number 19 in the 1573-74 inventory owned by Willibald imhoff, a Nuremberg patrician.
The Madonna of the Franciscans shows greater structural articulation, and was probably part of a diptych or triptych intended for private worship, perhaps of a small group of Friars Minor.
This two-sided panel was once the right wing of a diptych. On the front we see Veronica, among the most venerated saints of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Two hinged panels comprise a diptych, three a triptych, five or more being a polyptych.
Each diptych brings together one image from each group. The contemporary photographs are interpreted in brilliant glossy color chromes while the historical monochrome photographs are digitally printed on mirror-like mylar material.
Wangechi Mutu (Kenyan, 1972-), Yo Mama, 2003, a diptych of cut-and-pasted printed paper, cut-and-pasted pressure-sensitive synthetic polymer sheet, synthetic polymer paint, and pencil with glitter on two sheets of painted paper, ...
Altarpieces are often in two or three panels (diptychs and triptychs) with the panels showing separate but related scenes.
Polyptych: A single work comprised of multiple sections, panels, or canvas. Diptych= two, triptych=three. Return to top ...
He was born with a curious and adventurous spirit and traveled widely. During the reign of French monarch King Charles VII, Fouquet was commissioned to paint The Melun Diptych.
Description: Small resin panel from a diptych. Draped figure of an archangel standing with orb in right hand, staff in left... The Martyrium Basilica and the Holy Sepulchre in the 4th Century
In 325/6 C.E.
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