triptych

Examples of triptych in the following topics:

• Objects of Worship in the Middle Byzantine Empire

  • The Harbaville Triptych depicts a scene of Deesis with Christ as the Pantokrator, while the Borradaile Triptych depicts an image of the Crucifixion.
  • The Harbaville Triptych is an early example from the mid-tenth century of the new ivory triptychs that replaced diptychs during the Middle Byzantine period.
  • The Borradaile Triptych's main image depicts the Crucifixion of Christ instead of a Deesis.
  • The figures on the wings are images of saints, similar to the Harbaville Triptych.
  • Like triptychs, psalters were small, private objects used for private devotion and worship.

• Flemish Painting in the Northern Renaissance

  • One of his best known works, the Merode Altarpiece, is a triptych that depicts an Annunciation Scene.
  • Highly successful in his lifetime, his surviving works are mainly religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned portraits.
  • The Merode Altarpiece is a triptych that features the Archangel Gabriel approaching Mary, who is reading in a well-decorated, typical middle class Flanders home.

• Wood Sculpture

  • Completed in 1489, the altarpiece was the largest triptych of its time.
  • The altar at in Kraków was not completed until 1489, and was the largest triptych of its time and, like his other large works, required a large workshop including specialized painters and gilders.

• Romanesque Sculpture

  • The Stavelot Triptych and Reliquary of St.