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triptych

[ US /ˈtɹɪptɪk/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈɪptɪt‍ʃ/ ]
NOUN
  1. art consisting of a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on three panels (usually hinged together)

How To Use triptych In A Sentence

  • Gordon's eighth work of fiction is a triptych of lives, a weaving of three histories that culminates in a few days of crisis.
  • Least successful are the Bacon triptychs, which leave unanswered what is made of the displacement of a gay artist's male subjects by female protagonists.
  • With the cello suites and the solo violin sonatas and partitas, they form a triptych of Bach at his most concentrated and intimate.
  • Placed against the church's altar below the triptych with its fixed panels of the baptism, Lord's supper, and confession, the predella participates in the change from altar to table and shared meal of minister and people.
  • That said, I don't feel that what the production team has devised here is always in the triptych's best theatrical interests.
  • At the base of the central triptych is a cartoonish tombstone. Times, Sunday Times
  • Placed against the church's altar below the triptych with its fixed panels of the baptism, Lord's supper, and confession, the predella participates in the change from altar to table and shared meal of minister and people.
  • With the cello suites and the solo violin sonatas and partitas, they form a triptych of Bach at his most concentrated and intimate.
  • A delicate paper triptych titled Menstruation Carnations used pencil and blood to define three starkly outlined, centralized flowers.
  • Parsifal is a huge triptych set in the bare wooden attic. Times, Sunday Times
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