Definition: A triptych is a series of three paintings. Traditionally two are attached to the central one by hinges and fold over it. Triptychs are often used as an altar-piece in a church.
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Triptych
A triptych (pronounced "trip-tick,") is divided into three sections, or three carved panels which are hinged together. The central panel is the most important one, and this is flanked on either side by two lesser but related paintings.
triptych
Art consisting of a painting or carving on three panels, often hinged together. This was commonly constructed for altarpieces during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Triptych
A painting with three panels.
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The French term Trois Crayons (three chalks) refers to a technique using black, red, and white chalk together to achieve a wide range of values, black being the darkest tone, ...
Triptych : A three paneled art piece, either image or carving, linked by hinges, used in religious iconography.
Triptych
Refers to a three-paneled artwork. Historically, triptychs were hinged together so that the two side wings could close over the central panel.
Triptych - A three-part work of art; especially a painting, meant for placement on an altar, with three panels that fold together.
Triptych - A wax writing tablet consisting of three painted or carved leaves and hinged together. This can be found within the realm of Armenian art.
Triptych of Garden of Earthly Delights
c. 1500
Oil on panel, central panel: 220 x 195 cm, wings: 220 x 97 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid ...
Triptych. * Polyptych.
Truss. A triangular load-bearing structure used to support the roofs of churches and other buildings. The beams are usually made of wood, though they may also be steel or concrete.
Triptych (trip-tik) - A work of art done in three separate panels
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triptych
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triptych - A painting which consists of one center panel, with two paintings attached on either side by means of hinges or other means, as "wings." ...
TRIPTYCH - work of art composed of three separate pieces, usually displayed together. Pronounced "trip-tick". A set of three paintings or bas reliefs, related in subject matter and connected side by side.
Triptych (1976) Detail
By Francis Bacon.
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Braque Triptych. Detail. c.1450. Oil on panel. Louvre, Paris.
Braque Triptych. Detail of Landscape behind St. John the Baptist. c.1450. Oil on panel. Louvre, Paris.
Entombment of Christ. c.1460. Oil on panel.
Triptych
A triptych is a three piece panel painting in which the two side wings are half the width of the centre panel, in order that they may be folded over onto the centre.
Triptych: - A painting that has three parts, panels, or canvases. This was a common form for an altarpiece during the middle Ages and the Renaissance Return to top ...
Triptych
A painting or carving consisting of three panels
Trompe L'oiel (Pronounced 'Tromp-Loy')
A painting rendered in such great detail as to deceive the viewer concerning its reality ...
The triptych marked Rubens' sensational introduction of the Baroque style into Northern art. The diagonal composition is full of dynamism and animated colour.
Haywain (triptych)
Left wing, "Paradise"
Central panel, "Haywain"
Right wing, "Hell" ...
London Triptych
The "Small" Madonnas
When examining the Madonna of Bern and the Madonna of the Franciscans, Buoninsegna's extraordinary versatility must again be stressed.
Stavelot Triptych, Mosan, Belgium, c. 1156-58. 48Ã-66 cm with wings open, Morgan Library, New York ...
The picture is a triptych, composed in three hinged panels (the outer wings can be closed over the middle panel, and probably has another painting on the closed wings).
Maria Assunta, its triptychs based on any number of triptychs representing the Crucifixion.
Departure, Beckmann's first painting in triptych form, was begun in May 1932. Within a short time the Nazis came to power, and Beckmann, having been forced to resign his teaching position at the Stadel Art School in Frankfurt, moved to Berlin...
In the second piece of triptych "1940-1944," a photo of a large community stands outside the sun, framed by a tree that is black and gnarled. No new shoots adorn its limbs.
Wiertz's audacious 1853 triptych, Last Thoughts And Visions Of A Decapitated Head (Pensées et Visions d'une tête coupée) incorporates most of these elements with a terrifying force and sense of movement, ...
triptych A painting in three sections, usually an altarpiece, consisting of a central panel and two outer panels, or wings. In many medieval triptychs the two outer wings were hinged so that could be closed over the center panel.
Francis Bacon, the British painter, also used the triptych format in his convulsive images of post-war angst and abandonment.
In another panel of the Daddi triptych, an asymmetrical balance occurs when the three smaller shapes on the right balance the large figure on the left of the composition. The strong diagonal division created by the mountain reinforces this asymmetry.
Part of the dynamism of this work lies in the strengths of the altar-like triptych.
At the same time, to take one example only - the diptych and triptych of Bishop Grandison in the British Museum - we have evidence that English ivory carvers were capable of rare excellence of design and workmanship.
Dutch artist Hieronomous Bosch was a famous fantastical artist of the 1500's who is most well known for his painting of The Garden of Earthly Delights - it's a triptych of Eden portraying nude people, giant fruits, winged houses, and glass domes.
Altarpieces are often in two or three panels (diptychs and triptychs) with the panels showing separate but related scenes.
Disjunctive narrative, International style, Siennese, maniera greca, altarpiece, tempera, polyptych, triptych, patron, modeling, fresco (buono fresco, fresco secco)
4. 15th century Outside Italy (1400-1500) ...
Rothko, Mark
Interior, the Rothko Chapel
North view, including the apse triptych at far right
Houston, Texas ...
This portrait and its mate were most likely part of a hinged three-part panel painting called a triptych. These were almost certainly the wings, which when opened showed the man and woman praying to an image of the Virgin and Child in the center.
A three-part painting of this sort is called a triptych. Paintings with more complicated arrangements, are called polyptychs. Altarpieces often have a decorated panel at the bottom called a predella.
Polyptych: A single work comprised of multiple sections, panels, or canvas. Diptych= two, triptych=three.
During the Renaissance, an altarpiece was typically a triptych, meaning three painted hinged panels. Ralph Mayer, "A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques" Kimberley Reynolds, "Illustrated Dictionary of Art Terms" ...
triptych - set of three paintings, related in subject and displayed side by side or stacked; a painting in three parts * ...
 See also: Painting, Panel, Portrait, Composition, Sculpture
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