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An arrangement of four or more panels (as of a painting) usually hinged and folding together .

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  • The city merits at least half a day -- a morning, to be sure of finding open the National Gallery of Umbria, just restored and rehung, with its magnificent Piero della...
  • Originally from the Scuola del Cristo at the Giudecca, the polyptych is composed of five panels, the central one of which is of St James the Greater with St John the...
  • Bouts, nor to halt a while at Ghent to admire the polyptych of the
  • The top part of what once was a large Venetian polyptych from the early 1500s was credited to Carpaccio.
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