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 Francesca polyptych, also just restored. From Wordnik.com. [Green-Hearted Italy] Reference
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 Evangelist and St Filippo Benizzi one of the saints of the Order of Servites on the left, and St. Michael the Archangel and St. Louis of Toulouse on the right. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
Bouts, nor to halt a while at Ghent to admire the polyptych of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
The top part of what once was a large Venetian polyptych from the early 1500s was credited to Carpaccio. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Self-Portrait (Strangulation), a polyptych with 10 images of Andy's head and a pair of hands wrapped around his neck. From Wordnik.com. [PegasusNews.com stories] Reference
Between the two tablets others were sometimes inserted and the diptych would then be called a triptych, polyptych, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
Eight small books are arranged in two layers on top of each other, each forming a polyptych scene painted by Danica Novgorodoff. From Wordnik.com. [Home] Reference
Should you see the word polittico in an Italian museum, look not for a portrait of a Machiavellian ward heeler, merely a ` polyptych panel. '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4] Reference
Monastery, and perhaps the polyptych at Legnano is even more important than either of them, so sumptuous is it in its colouring and so exquisite in its religious feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Mantegna's work for this featured a polyptych (multiple paneled painting) depicting Mary and Child in the central panel, flanked by scenes of disciples and saints, with scenes below of the prayer at the Mount of Olives, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection (image above). From Wordnik.com. [lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, concept art and other visual arts] Reference
Its narrative drags, in some cases, almost intolerably; the grasp of character, though visible, is inchoate; the plot is rather a polyptych of separate scenes than a connected action; you see at once that the author has changed his model to Sir Walter and think how much better Sir. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
The real interest of the Cathedral centers, not in St. Bavon, nor in his picture by Rubens, but in the great polyptych of the Adoration of the Lamb, the masterpiece of Jan van Eyck and his brother Hubert, which forms in a certain sense the point of departure for the native art of the Netherlands. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2] Reference
Its estates of Issy and of Celle-St-Cloud were vast possessions, and the polyptych (record of the monastic possessions), drawn up at the beginning of the ninth century under the direction of Abbot Irminon, shows how these estates, which extended into Indre and Normandy, were administered and cultivated. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
The polyptych of St. Victor, compiled in 814, the large chartulary, or collection of charters (end of the eleventh and beginning of the twelfth century), and the small chartulary (middle of the thirteen century) edited by M. Guérard, and containing documents from 683 to 1336, enable the reader to grasp the important economic rôle of this great abbey in the Middle Ages. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
By arranging a selection of one 40 by 40-inch canvas plucked from each series — a Shot Orange Marilyn, a Liz, and a Red Jackie — on the wall of his bedroom at home in the expensive, “five-towns” suburb of Lawrence, Long Island, the collector Leon Kraushar not only compounded the allure of each subject, but by forming a kind of funerary polyptych for the sleek modern boudoir, surely also heightened the varying degrees of frank sexuality Andy applied to the eyes and lips of all three. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
1489, recovery of the shrine of St. Ursula, and placing of relics in this shrine; 1491, polyptych of the "Cathedral of Lubeck". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
This piece was a left part of polyptych with "Moika, 12" (detail of the monument to Pushkin in a snowy yard of his last apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
Here's the polyptych. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
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