diptych
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- noun
- /ˈdɪp.tɪk/
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díptico
- Both "Natures" form a diptych, the two parts of which have their own significance and message.
- double diptych
Examples
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"Bus Terminal Diptych #1" reveals characteristics of Tice's habits of composition.
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What is the timeline in the diptych here?
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Who is about to show me her diptych.
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As all writers before him, he sees art from Africa as a diptych: the classical and the modern.
Academic text (2015) -
In a similar way, icons were traditionally painted on a wood board, or in either a diptych or double diptych case.
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There are singles and diptychs and triptychs, a story about a man and a woman and really a woman's search for herself.
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The panels that were joined with portraits to form diptychs tend to be stylistically consistent with those portraits.
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Another, much smaller (58.4 cm x 57.8 cm) painting attributed to Fre Seyon is the right panel of a diptych, now in a private collection (Fig. 1).
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"Cluny" by Paul Shakespeare is a lopsided diptych in hues of leaf and tile, thick with textural and geometric shapes that promise and refuse to resolve themselves into human faces or letters of the alphabet.
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The artist created a stunning diptych that tells a story through its two contrasting panels.
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Etymology
The word diptych comes from Greek parts di- 'two' and -ptych 'fold'. So it means 'two-fold' and you can think of it as a small book or a double picture made of two panels joined together.