Diptych
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A diptych is an object made up of two flat plates or panels that form a pair, often joined by a hinge. In the ancient world, for example, the standard notebook or school exercise book often took the f
Ivory consular diptych of Areobindus, Byzantium, 506 AD, Louvre
Wax tablet and a Roman stylus
Barberini Ivory, Constantinople, 6th century, Louvre
Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Last Judgment, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The miniature altarpiece in the British Museum, London, is a very small portable Gothic boxwood miniature sculpture completed in 1511 by the Northern Netherlands master sometimes identified as Adam Di
Crucifixion scene
The second level triptych, showing scenes from the life of Christ, with the inscription from the crucifixion triptych above
The Last Supper, detail