Word: polyptych
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...Memling, brought together from collections as widely separated as Lübeck and Cleveland. One of the few important Memlings not included was the Last Judgment altarpiece in Danzig Cathedral, unavailable because of "international tension." About the finest thing in the exhibition was an altarpiece in nine panels (polyptych) from Lübeck, painted with an austere simplification of detail rare in Flemish art. Most famous of all, and best proof of "Master Hans's" ability to handle crowded, minute composition, was his series of six panels on the life of St. Ursula from Bruges' own ancient Hospital...