Word: triptych
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...chosen to do the job. The three he has finished so far are indistinguishable from those made 200 years ago. But he would rather illustrate his Catholicism in his own way. And now, at 37, he has the chance. He has been commissioned to do a surrealist altar triptych and Stations of the Cross for a tiny Catholic hill chapel in Bavaria...
...have visited troubled Macedonia, Thessaly and Epirus. In Salonika Frederika plunged, over official protests, into the working quarter, won a few smiles and cheers from sullen leftists, was kissed ("from top to toe," she said) by working women outside an orphanage. When she left Salonika, a shopkeeper arranged a triptych of photographs in his window: Frederika flanked by Stalin and the Greek Communist leader, Zachariades...
Featured in the March issue of Motion Picture, a fan magazine which normally confines itself, to rhapsodic accounts of the stars' daily routines, is a triptych of articles on "Divorce in Hollywood." The authors: famed churchmen of three faiths -Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, Rabbi Sidney E. Goldstein, and the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick. All three agree that 1) the true strength of a nation rests on the family; 2) the off-again-on-again marriages of Hollywood stars set a bad national fashion-and are at least partly responsible for the soaring U.S. divorce rate; 3) Hollywood marriage, therefore...
...picture most gallerygoers liked best was Beckmann's monumental triptych Acrobats, a highflying, three-ring circus fantasy wild enough to outclass even Ringling Bros. He had splashed on colors with the lavish hand of a man who wakes up to find a rainbow in his pocket. And he made each color count...
...Simone Martini, or Memmi, was reputedly a pupil of Giotto. He is best known for his Annunciation triptych in the Uffizi Gallery at Florence...