Word: polyptych
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...walk and large enough to surprise. You'll want to visit the Hotel de Dieu with its stunning multicolor-tile peaked roofs. Now a museum, it is filled with nice details of its former incarnation as a medieval hospital. Housed inside is The Last Judgment, an extraordinary painting in polyptych by Flemish painter Roger van der Weyden...
...Heart Skipped." Could the polyptych be by Giotto and come from the Badia? Vasari had described such a work on the high altar. Later cleaning proved Procacci's hunch correct; handwriting analysis narrowed the date of the sticker to about 1810. Procacci was then able to reconstruct what had happened: the altarpiece had been removed in 1810 by Napoleon's troops from the Badia; then in 1815, through a clerical mistake, it had been returned instead to Santa Croce. Digging through the old floor plans of the Badia, Procacci made a second discovery. The church had been rebuilt...
...Musical Drama of the Nativity, and what should be thought of as a Christmas Pageant. For the seven scenes of his new work, which received its first performance Tuesday evening, are not intended to be at all theatrical. They are, rather, the seven panels of a serene and devotional polyptych; quiet, unposturing tableaux of the birth of the Christ Child...
Wild Gentleness. On the surface, his Mary Magdalene (see overleaf) seductive though she may be, seems an excessive display of virtuosity, as stilted and brittle as a piece of porcelain. But there is nothing static about the Massa Fermana polyptych. From the wild gentleness of John the Baptist to the virile saintliness of the great Pope (sometimes identified as Gregory, sometimes as Sylvester) to the sweet composure of the Madonna, the emotions change, though so subtly and silently as to be almost imperceptible. Crivelli's paintings, said Berenson himself, are "full of the deepest contrition, most tender pity...
Despite its faults, the polyptych shows that Painter-Housewife Sharrer deserves a-place in the front rank of those U.S. artists who still put content first and paint it to look as real as possible...