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Triptych   /trˈɪptɪk/   Listen
Triptych

noun
(pl. triptychs)
1.
Art consisting of a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on three panels (usually hinged together).





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"Triptych" Quotes from Famous Books



... few that were cut by Tabachetti himself were not meant to have attention concentrated on themselves alone. As mere wood-carving the Saas-Fee chapels will not stand comparison, for example, with the triptych of unknown authorship in the Church of St. Anne at Gliss, close to Brieg. But, in the first place, the work at Gliss is worthy of Holbein himself: I know no wood-carving that can so rivet the attention; moreover it is coloured with water-colour and not oil, so that it is tinted, ...
— Essays on Life, Art and Science • Samuel Butler
... and gilded leather which stood against the wall and were so long that the ladies of the day had the credit of hiding their gallants in them. On stools lay more books, and yet more books, with a medley of other things: a silver flagon, and some weapons, a chess-board, an enamelled triptych and the like. ...
— The Long Night • Stanley Weyman


Words linked to "Triptych" :   art, fine art


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