Northern Early Modern Diptychs and Triptychs

Northern
Early Modern
Diptychs and Triptychs
“Flemish painting will, generally speaking, please the devout better than any
painting of Italy, which will never cause him to shed a tear, whereas that of
Flanders will cause him to shed many…. It will appeal to…the very old and
the very young,… and to certain noblemen who have no sense of true
[artistic] harmony.
In Flanders they paint with a view to deceiving sensual vision…. They paint
stuffs and masonry, the grass of the fields , the shadows of trees, and
rivers…. And all this though it pleases some persons, is done without reason
or art, without symmetry or proportion, without skill, selection or boldness,
and finally without substance or vigor. And I do not speak so ill of Flemish
painting because it is all bad, but because it attempts to do so many things
well, that it does none well.”
Michelangelo on Flemish Painting
http://arthistoryresources.net/renaissance-art-theory-2014/michelangelo-on-painting.html
The Merode Altarpiece by Robert Campin, oil on panel, 1426
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/470304
Western “Royal” portal , Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France, 12th ce
Diptychs
and
Triptychs
Bibaut Diptych
Master of the Magdalen
and Anon. French artist,
1523, oil on panels
Maarten van Nieuwenhove diptych by Hans Memling, 1487, oil on panel
Interactive explanation: http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/diptych/diptych1.shtm
Maarten van Nieuwenhove diptych by Hans Memling, 1487, oil on panel
Maarten van Nieuwenhove diptych by Hans Memling, 1487, oil on panel
Virgin and Child with Philippe de Croÿ by Rogier van der Weyden, 1460, oil on panel
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/diptych/fullscreen/diptych1.shtm
The Merode Altarpiece by Robert Campin, oil on panel, 1426
(exterior wings)
Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, oil on panel, 1473 - 78
(exterior wings)
Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, oil on panel, 1473 - 78
Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, oil on panel, 1473 - 78
Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, oil on panel, 1473 - 78
(detail of landscape)
Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der
Goes, oil on panel, 1473 - 78
Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, oil on panel, 1473 - 78
detail of still life in Portinari Altarpiece
Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, oil on panel, 1473 - 78
detail of angels in Portinari Altarpiece
detail of demon in
Portinari Altarpiece
Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, oil on panel, 1473 - 78
Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol, acrylic paint on canvas, 1962
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/warhol-marilyn-diptych-t03093
What affect does it have to repeat the imagery from panel to panel?
Within a panel?
Diptych by Francesca DiMattio, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2008
http://www.salon94.com/artists/detail/francesca-dimattio/3077