Word: triptych
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...Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus, a long-hidden work by an unknown Flemish master which went on view last week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (see opposite page). Preserved for many years in the seldom-used Paris house of a French banker, the yard-high triptych first reappeared in public at a 1962 auction. A Manhattan art syndicate bought it for $346,550, a huge sum for an anonymous work. Presumably, the Boston museum paid even more...
Before its channel to the sea silted up, Bruges was a thriving port, grown wealthy under its Burgundian duke, Philip the Good, from banking and the wool trade with England. The prince's financial adviser, Hippolytus de Berthoz, presumably commissioned both triptychs to honor his saint's name. The heraldry painted on the outer faces of the triptych suggests that it was done some time between 1480 and 1494, almost certainly by a master painter in the Guild of St. Luke, a medieval union that included saddlers and glassworkers...
...called Flemish primitives were actually the first to master some of the subtler techniques of oil painting. From the triptych's wood panels, prepared with white lime, light flashes through glistening layers of oil pigments as if from the depth of the landscape. But the artist depended on more than radiant color to entrance his viewers. He extended the action into the flanking panels, breaking boldly out of the boxy frames. The turning necks of tugging horses and the upraised arms of their whipping drivers set up a motion around the spread-eagled saint that sweeps through the three...
...been a machine gunner in the war, and his drawings did to war-weary Germans what Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front did in words. By 1923, he had sold an enormous triptych, Trench, to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne for 10,000 gold marks, or nearly $3,000. Carrying on as lance bearer of the Neue Sachlichkeit (the New Objectivity), Dix went on to influence Max Beckmann and Georg Grosz with his sharp-edged, magical realism that applied the techniques of the old masters to the social misery of the anarchic Weimar Republic...
...that they placed on any of the baroness' paintings was $3,000. The baroness had her own expert: Alexander Kirkland, who runs a gallery in Palm Beach, Fla., where he had been exhibiting the baroness' work (without making a single sale). He placed the value of the triptych paintings at $28,000 each...