Word: diptych
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...Miller Collection are Roman and Byzantine diptychs, Carolingian and Romanesque book covers and casket panels, and Gothic utensils, both ecclesiastical and secular. Specimens of this class go back as far as the fourth century, from which is the consular diptych of Rufus Probianus. There are also diptychs of Flavius Asturius (fifth century), Areobindus (sixth century), the fifth century Byzantine diptych of an archangel in the British Museum, the front cover of the Psalter of Charles the Bald (ninth century), the South Kensington plate of Mary between Isaiah and Melchisedek (ninth century), a tenth century Holy Water vessel from Milan Cathedral...
...large and beautiful picture by Rogier Van der Weyden, the great Flemish master of the fifteenth century, whose works are so rare and so much valued. It will be on exhibition until Wednesday. The subject is "Noll me tangere." The picture has been placed in the gallery beside the diptych attributed to the same artist, which is one of the most important pictures in the permanent collection at the museum...
...University has recently received an exceedingly valuable legacy from the will of the late G. W. Harris of Boston in the shape of a diptych, representing a bishop in full pontifical robes in adoration before the Madonna and Child. This picture was painted by Rogier van der Weyden, a Flemish painter of the 15th century, and is a thoroughly characteristic and very beautiful example of the works of this early master. It will be placed in the Fogg Art Museum as soon as it can be properly and safely mounted...