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triptych

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"The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.

There is in the Cluny Museum, in Paris, a beautiful triptych, evidently of the sixteenth century.

There is also a very little triptych, with a Descent from the Cross, and an inscription on the shutters.

In his native town, in the church of S. Gregorio, is a triptych by him, dated 1473.

Among the best is a triptych in the sacristy of the Cathedral representing the birth of the Virgin.

In the centre of the triptych, the Virgin sits on a throne of Flemish renaissance design.

In the middle ages painters and designers used three divisions or a triptych, as it is called, in their altar decorations.

Indeed, in Figure 244 this may be carried even to the point of duplicating in reverse order the outside panels of the Triptych.

They are believed by experts to have been the "volets" of a triptych of which the center panel was missing.

His work was of very unequal merit, although he painted hundreds of compositions in triptych form for the churches.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985