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diptych
I merged them into a diptych and thought I had something that worked fairly well.
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Prices range from $10,000 for a diptych on paper to about $250,000 for the mural.
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Read together, the two books form a kind of diptych of Hollywood's golden age.
From the guardian.co.uk
It was first published in 1658, along with its diptych companion, Urn-Burial.
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Diptych, Oil on oak panels, each 23.8cm x 16.5cm. National Gallery, London.
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It is really a diptych with Richard Neutra on one side and Rudolph Schindler on the other.
From the latimes.com
The two photographs hung next to each other-a diptych to powerlessness.
From the economist.com
The living would be inscribed on one wing of the diptych, and the departed on the other.
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The diptych form, at least originally, served as a pair of covers for wax writing tablets.
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- A painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book)
- A diptych (/u02C8du026Aptu026Ak/; from the Greek u03B4u03AFu03C0u03C4u03C5u03C7u03BFu03BD, di "two" + ptychu0113 "fold") is any object with two flat plates attached at a hinge. In particular the standard notebook and school exercise book of the ancient world was the diptych consisting of a pair of such plates that were wax tablets, with on their inside faces a recessed space filled with wax. This took writing made with a pointed stylus...
- A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within; A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets, usually connected by hinges; A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in ...
- (Diptychs) (Gr. "folding boards"): (1) Lists of names for living and dead, written on cardboard for their commemoration in the liturgy. ...
- 1) A set of two prints making one complete image. 2) An ancient writing tablet consisting of two pieces of wood or ivory hinged together, with the inner sides waxed for writing on with a stylus.
- In medieval art a picture, often an altarpiece, consisting of two folding wings without a fixed central area.
- A work in the form of two related paintings or panels placed side by side.
- A two-part painting often of attached panels.
- Two tablets hinged like a book: in relation to liturgical works specifically refers to lists of people and churches to be prayed for displayed in this form
