diptych

Examples of diptych in the following topics:

• Ivory Carving in the Early Byzantine Empire

  • Ivory diptychs, often elaborately decorated, were issued as gifts by newly appointed consuls.
  • The Barberini Diptych (c. 500-550 CE) is a Byzantine ivory leaf from an imperial diptych dating from Late Antiquity.
  • The Barberini Diptych is attributed to an imperial workshop in Constantinople.
  • Dating to approximately the same period as the Barberini Diptych is the Archangel Ivory (c. 525-550 CE), the largest surviving half of an ivory diptych from the Early Byzantine period.
  • The Barberini Diptych is an early example of Byzantine ivory work.

• Ivory Carving

  • Consuls, civil officers who played an important administrative role until 541, gave Roman Consular diptychs as presents.
  • These Roman Consular diptychs consisted of two panels carved on the outsides joined by hinges with the image of the consul .
  • The Barberini Diptych depicts a victorious early sixth century Byzantine emperor.

• Sculpture of the Early Christian Church

  • Smaller objects, such as consular diptychs were also part of the Roman traditions that Early Christians continued.
  • Consular diptychs were commissioned by consuls elected at the beginning of the year to mark his entry to that post, and was distributed as a commemorative reward to those who had supported his candidature or might support him in future.
  • The oldest consular diptych depicts the consul Probus (406 CE) dressed in the traditional garb of a Roman soldier.
  • The subjects were often narrative religious scenes in vertical sections, largely derived from Late Antique paintings and carvings, as were those with more hieratic images derived from consular diptychs and other imperial art.

• Carolingian Metalwork in the Early European Middle Ages

  • Metalwork subjects were often narrative religious scenes in vertical sections, largely derived from Late Antique paintings and carvings, as were those with more hieratic images derived from consular diptychs and other imperial art, such as the front and back covers of the Lorsch Gospels.

• Gothic Metalwork and Ivory Carvings

  • In addition to small figures and talismans, there was a fashion for narrative panels in groups of two or three (diptychs and tryptychs), or multi-panel polytychs.

• Objects of Worship in the Middle Byzantine Empire

  • The panels could also be divided in two, known as diptychs, or sometimes had more than three panels, known as a polyptych.
  • 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.

• Manuscript Printing

  • Around the Trinity, blue and red angels are deployed, similar to those in Fouquet's Melun diptych (now Antwerp).

• Panel Painting

  • Jacques Fouquet, right wing of Melun Diptych; Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels (c.1450)

• Monumental Reliefs in Southeast Asia

  • Reliefs depicting figures that are at least life-size or bigger or are attached to monuments of some sort are termed monumental reliefs by art historians, thus distinguishing them from small metal or ivory reliefs, portable sculptures, and diptychs.

• Flemish Painting in the Northern Renaissance

  • The majority of this work was presented as either panels, single altarpieces, or more complex altarpieces, which were usually in the form of diptychs or polyptychs.