1) Ancient hinged tablet 2) Ancient two-leaved tablet 3) Fine art 4) Hinged pair of pictures 5) The lists of such persons
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A diptych (k; from the Greek δίπτυχον, di `two` + ptychē `fold`) is any object with two flat plates attached at a hinge. Devices of this form were quite popular in the ancient world, wax tablets being coated with wax on inner faces, for recording notes and for measuring time and direction. In Late Antiquity, ivory diptychs with covers...
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pair of pictures on hinged panels; register of bishops and saints
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• (n.) A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych. • (n.) Anything consisting of two leaves. • (n.) A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints. • (n.) A writing table...
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(from the article `Western sculpture`) Diptychs, or two-panel ivories, seem to have been very popular both for use as book covers and for ceremonial purposes. The most impressive of them ... ...technical terms are associated with altarpieces. The predella is a low, decorated strip intended to raise the main part of the altarpiece to a ....
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Sculpture (usually in ivory) or painting, consisting of two panels hinged together like a book, enabling its use as a free-standing unit when open. Diptychs are often
altarpieces, or portable...
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a painting done in two separate panels. Each part is a complete work in itself, but when presented together they form a larger fully integrated work.
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Dip'tych noun [ Latin
diptycha , plural, from Greek ... folded, doubled;
di- =
di`s- twice + ... to fold, double up.]
1. Anything consisting of two leaves. Especially:
(a) (Roman Antiq.) A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material conn...
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A diptych was a two-leaved tablet of metal, ivory or other material used by the Greeks and Romans. In the early Christian church it was customary to inscribe the names of deceased bishops on
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[
n] - a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book)
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Painting in two panels (see Altarpiece)
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noun a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book)
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Sculpture (usually in ivory) or painting, consisting of two panels hinged together like a book, enabling its use as a free-standing unit when open. Diptychs are often altarpieces, or portable altars containing a portrait facing the portrayal of a saint
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a hinged two-leaved tablet used in ancient times for writing on with a stylus. · Usually, · a similar tablet of wood or metal containing on one leaf the names of those among the living, and on the other those among the dead, for whom prayers and Masses are said. · the lists of such persons. · the intercession in the course of wh...
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