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A picture or series of pictures painted on three tablets connected by hinges.
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A set of three se-tenant postage stamps that form a composite picture.
Examples of triptych in a Sentence
The altar-piece is a triptych, the centre-piece representing the Crucifixion; beside the cross Luther is represented, with the open Bible in his hand, while the blood from the pierced side of the Saviour pours on to his head.
Nicola in the village contains a remarkable staurotheca of the Ilth (?) century, and a wooden triptych in imitation of the Byzantine style with enamels of the 13th century.
It has a fine brick campanile and brick decoration, and contains a bronze triptych of 1358 in niello, with the Virgin and Child.
The town church (Stadtkirche) also has a fine altar with triptych.
It is a triptych piece consisting of two 16x20 inch canvases and one 16x16 inch canvas.
Paul Rooney created a triptych of videos with a soundtrack reflecting the previous owner's memories of her flat.
Graphic panels flank this to form a triptych, which appears to fold out to reveal the precious objects.
And was recently commissioned to paint a triptych for the Great North Run.
You can see a triptych of these portraits on my website, entitled ' Dancing with Darkness ' .
I was looking at a great triptych by Bosch and I got shocked.
The late Ray Walker was commissioned to cover Army Recruitment in 1981 and produced a powerful triptych with pointed references to Northern Ireland.
Another relic of this period is a beautiful triptych, looted from a chapel on one of the Spanish ships.
They are both original triptych abstract canvas based paintings, formulating part of a current collection of work by the artist in this style.
The final triptych will be exhibited in the gallery, accessioned to the Boro Art Collection, and put on the gallery website.
You can see a triptych of these portraits on my website, entitled ' Dancing with Darkness '.
Drunk is shot in black and white on 16mm film and projected on a vast triptych of nearly contiguous screens.
The first part of Red Shift 's Picture House triptych of productions adapted from novels that spawned major motion pictures.
Paul Rooney created a triptych of videos with a soundtrack reflecting the previous owner 's memories of her flat.
I mean, even the titles of the triptych paintings alert the viewer to the human presence as the subject matter.
His new show, Postcards from the Wedge, opens at Brixton 's Fridge Gallery on 22 March and includes 10 triptych pieces.
These include environmental consequences such as multi-stage, convergence and the triptych approach as discussed below.
Two of the most famous works formerly attributed to Rene are the triptych, the "Burning Bush," in the cathedral of Aix, showing portraits of Rene and his second wife, Jeanne de Laval, and an illuminated Book of Hours in the Bibliotheque nationale, Paris.
In the church of Notre Dame (16th century) is Rubens' masterpiece "the miraculous draught of fishes," and in that of St John is a fine triptych by the same master.
Of the three churches (two Evangelical and one Roman Catholic) the most remarkable is the abbey church (Klosterkirche), a late Gothic building dating from 1465-1496, the choir of which contains beautiful 15th century carved choir-stalls and a fine high altar with a triptych (1496).