Although triptych originally described a specific type of Roman writing tablet that had three hinged sections, it is not surprising that the idea was generalized first to a type of painting, and then to anything composed of three parts. Liddell, Henry George Scott, Robert A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project. That record was broken in May 2015 by $179.4 million for Pablo Picasso's 1955 painting Les Femmes d’Alger. When Bacon's 1969 triptych, Three Studies of Lucian Freud, was sold in 2013 for $142.4 million, it was the highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction at that time. Īlthough strongly identified as a religious altarpiece form, triptychs outside that context have been created, some of the best-known examples being works by Max Beckmann and Francis Bacon. Likewise, Tibetan Buddhists have used it in traditional altars. For example: the triptych Hilje-j-Sherif displayed at the National Museum of Oriental Art, Rome, Italy, and a page of the Qur'an at the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts in Istanbul, Turkey, exemplify Ottoman religious art adapting the motif. The triptych format has been used in non-Christian faiths, including, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. Among the most prolific were Violet Oakley, Nina Barr Wheeler, and Hildreth Meiere. By the end of the war, 70 artists had created 460 triptychs.
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The triptych form's transportability was exploited during World War Two when a private citizens' committee in the United States commissioned painters and sculptors to create portable three-panel hinged altarpieces for use by Christian and Jewish U.S. The form is echoed by the structure of many ecclesiastical stained glass windows. The Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium, contains two examples by Rubens, and Notre Dame de Paris is another example of the use of triptych in architecture. One such cathedral with an altarpiece triptych is Llandaff Cathedral. Triptych forms also allow ease of transport.įrom the Gothic period onward, both in Europe and elsewhere, altarpieces in churches and cathedrals were often in triptych form. Renaissance painters such as Hans Memling and Hieronymus Bosch used the form. During the Byzantine period, triptychs were often used for private devotional use, along with other relics such as icons. Its geographical range was from the eastern Byzantine churches to the Celtic churches in the west. The triptych form appears in early Christian art, and was a popular standard format for altar paintings from the Middle Ages onwards.
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