#triptych
Art the community tagged “triptych” — see what people make of it.
No posts tagged “triptych” yet.
The Elevation of the Cross by Peter Paul Rubens, 1610
According to Wikipedia the side panels are on hinges — the whole thing folds shut over the middle like a cupboard, so there's an open view and a closed one. It was made to stand over a church altar, right where the congregation would face it.
Erisava: Does anyone else find this exhausting to look at? Every single body is straining.
The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, 1490
The two outer panels fold shut over the middle like doors, and the backs of them are painted grey — a world with the colour not switched on yet. Whether the middle is a warning about giving in to temptation or something a lot fonder than that, no one seems to have settled in five hundred years.
Erisava: Somebody paid for this. I can't imagine what they thought they'd ordered.