Among his most famous paintings are the triptych Metropolis ( 1928 ), a scornful portrayal of depraved actions of Germany's Weimar Republic, where nonstop revelry was a way to deal with the wartime defeat and financial catastrophe, and the startling Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden ( 1926 ).

The altar at in Kraków was not completed until 1489, and was the largest triptych of its time and, like his other large works, required a large workshop including specialized painters and gilders.

The triptych mainly is focused on water imagery and was supposed to be integral with the songs that were played.

Nicolas Froment ( 1435 – 1486 ) was the most important painter of Provence during the Renaissance, best known for his triptych of the Burning Bush ,( around 1476 ) commissioned by King René I of Naples.

He also painted religious altarpieces and triptych panels, the most famous of which was built for the Church of Saint Peter in Leuven.

A triptych by Dante Gabriel Rossetti was designed for use as a reredos, and new stained glass windows were designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Ford Madox Brown.

Messiaen's modal serialism was an influence on Xenakis's first large-scale work, Anastenaria ( 1953 – 54 ): a triptych for choir and orchestra based on an ancient Dionysian ritual.

The third part of the triptych, Metastaseis, is generally regarded as the composer's first mature piece ; it was detached from the triptych to mark the beginning of the " official " Xenakis oeuvre.

In April 1928, a large granite memorial in the form of a triptych, inscribed with the names and ages of the victims, was erected over the communal grave.

Other than a major retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago in 1964-65 ( with an excellent catalogue by Peter Selz ), and MoMA's prominent display of the triptych " Departure ", his work was little seen in America for decades.

His breakthrough came with the 1944 triptych Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, and it was this work and his heads and figures of the late 1940s through to the mid 1950s that sealed his reputation as a notably bleak chronicler of the human condition.

Rego was signed by the London based gallery Marlborough Fine Art in 1987, and has shown there on numerous occasions, including a series of works based on Peter Pan in 1992, the celebrated ' Dog Woman ' series in 1994, and ' Oratorio ', a triptych format altarpiece, in 2010 created for the exhibition ' Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin & Paula Rego at the Foundling Museum ', held at the Foundling Museum, London.

As a concession made by < span lang =" fr "> Lamartine </ span > to popular aspirations, and in exchange of the maintaining of the tricolor flag, he conceded the Republican triptych of < span lang =" fr "> Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité </ span >, written on the flag, on which a red rosette was also to be added.

The triptych form arises from early Christian art, and was a popular standard format for altar paintings from the Middle Ages onwards.

A triptych altarpiece, Birth of the Virgin was commissioned for the Siena Cathedral and completed in 1342 by Pietro Lorenzetti.

He was a pioneer of the Netherlandish genre tradition, as witness his Chess Players ( Gemäldegalerie, Berlin )- which actually represents a variant game called ' courier-and his Card Players ( National Gallery of Art, Washington ), while his celebrated triptych of the Last Judgement of 1526-27 ( Lakenhal Museum, Leiden, 1526 – 27, illustration ) shows the heights to which he could rise as a religious painter.

During the last four years of his life Martin was engaged upon a triptych of very large biblical subjects: The Last Judgment, The Great Day of His Wrath, and The Plains of Heaven, of which two were bequeathed to Tate Britain in 1974, the other having been acquired for the Tate some years earlier.

Despite this apparent disappearance of the triptych, the latter was still being thought in some underground circles, in Republican secret societies, masonic lodges such as the " Indivisible Trinity ," far-left booklets or during the Canuts Revolt in Lyon.

But, according to Ozouf, the sole use of a triptych was the sign of the influence of the Republican motto, despite it being corrupted in its opposite.

In 1515 he was asked to take over the commission of a triptych for the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross in a chapel in the Sint-Walburga church in Veurne.

This triptych was commissioned by Philippe Haneton, first secretary in the Secret Counsel of Charles V. The middle panel depicts a poignant pietà against an archaic golden background, painted in a very personal style with influences of the Flemish Primitives and Albrecht Dürer.

The painting as we see it today is a fragment of a triptych that was cut into several parts.

Around 1425-1428 Campin painted the Mérode Altarpiece, a triptych ( three paneled paintings ) commissioned for private use.

In the 1470s he commissioned the Donne Triptych, an triptych altarpiece by Hans Memling now in the National Gallery, London.

It is theorized Wibald received the two smaller triptychs as diplomatic gifts from the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus, and after his return commissioned Mosan artists to create the larger outer triptych.

In the late 1750s he began composing symphonies, and by 1761 he had composed a triptych ( Morning, Noon, and Evening ) solidly in the " contemporary " mode.

The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych by Hieronymus Bosch ( c. 1503 ) shows the " garden " of mundane pleasures flanked by Paradise and Hell.

* The church of San Bernardino da Siena ( 1451, rebuilt in 1585 ) includes a triptych by Duccio d ' Andrea ( 15th century ) and other later paintings.

Woodblock print triptych by Gekko Ogata.

Detail of the Burning Bush triptych by Nicolas Froment, showing René of Anjou | René and his wife Jeanne de Laval

* Water Lilies triptych by Claude Monet

Michelangelo's two Slaves were among the rich appointments of the château Richelieu, where there were the Nativity triptych by Dürer and paintings by Mantegna, Lorenzo Costa and Perugino, lifted from the Gonzaga collection at Mantua by French military forces in 1630, as well as numerous antiquities.

Between the triptychs are four individual paintings ( 11 by 15 feet each ), and one additional individual painting faces the central triptych from the opposite wall.

The real marvels are inside the building: the statue of Christ on the main altar, made from corn dough by the Tarasco Mexican Indians, brought here before 1550, the Flemish Gothic main altar, which dates back to before 1516, and the triptych of the Virgin Mary, brought from Flanders, also in the 16th century, depicting five religious scenes.

This period is characterized by romantic paintings of the Kalevala, like the Aino triptych, and by several landscape paintings.

The inventories of Margaret of Austria, drawn up in 1524, allude to a triptych of the God of Pity by Roger van der Weyden, of which the wings containing angels were by " Master Hans ".

The cover image is a detail from the right ( Hell ) panel of The Garden of Earthly Delights, a triptych painted in 1504 by Hieronymus Bosch, now part of the permanent collection at the Prado in Madrid.

They were most famously used by Eno during the recording of David Bowie's Berlin triptych of albums ( Low, " Heroes ", Lodger ).

Sumo wrestling scene, triptych set of three prints by Kunisada, c. 1851

In the mid-1930s Humphrey created the New Dance Trilogy, a triptych comprising With My Red Fires, New Dance and the now-lost Theater Piece.

A recent ( 1998 – 1999 ) Twombly work, Three Studies from the Temeraire, a triptych, was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales for A $ 4. 5 million in 2004.

The Sienna marble altar and triptych was designed and built by Eugene W. Mason, Jr. of New York City, and is of Italian Gothic styling.