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Definition of Polyptychs
1. polyptych [n] - See also: polyptych
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polyptychs
Literary usage of Polyptychs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing: A Connected Narrative of the by Henry Noel Humphreys (1855)
"The practice of using diptychs and polyptychs of wood or ivory continued ...
from polyptychs of this kind that the modern form of books was first derived ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"They withdraw from Memling. the pictures of Munich and Turin ; the " Reliquary
of St. Ursula " ; the polyptychs of Lübeck and Dantzig, allowing him Bruges, ..."
3. Giotto and Some of His Followers by Osvald Sirén (1917)
"Several such separate figures of saints, which plainly were once wing pictures
in large polyptychs have been preserved in various collections. ..."
4. A Sienese Painter of the Franciscan Legend by Bernard Berenson (1909)
"Finally Matteo di Giovanni himself in his quite earliest works the polyptychs in S.
Agostino at Asciano, and at S. Agostino in Anghiari betrays the definite ..."
5. Essays in the Study of Sienese Painting by Bernard Berenson (1918)
"The problem of chronology is far more complicated but three whole polyptychs
should offer ample materials for a solution. We should at the start dispel from ..."
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