Northern Early Modern Diptychs and Triptychs

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“Flemish painting will, generally speaking, please the devout better than any painting of Italy, which will never cause him to shed a tear, whereas that of Flanders will cause him to shed many…. It will appeal to…the very old and the very young,… and to certain noblemen who have no sense of true [artistic] harmony.

In Flanders they paint with a view to deceiving sensual vision…. They paint stuffs and masonry, the grass of the fields , the shadows of trees, and rivers…. And all this though it pleases some persons, is done without reason or art, without symmetry or proportion, without skill, selection or boldness, and finally without substance or vigor. And I do not speak so ill of Flemish painting because it is all bad, but because it attempts to do so many things well, that it does none well.”

Michelangelo on Flemish Painting http://arthistoryresources.net/renaissance-art-theory-2014/michelangelo-on-painting.html

The Merode Altarpiece by Robert Campin, oil on panel, 1426 http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/470304

Western “Royal” portal , Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France, 12th ce

Diptychs and Triptychs

Bibaut Diptych Master of the Magdalen and Anon. French artist, 1523, oil on panels

Maarten van Nieuwenhove diptych by Hans Memling, 1487, oil on panel Interactive explanation: http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/diptych/diptych1.shtm

Maarten van Nieuwenhove diptych by Hans Memling, 1487, oil on panel

Virgin and Child with Philippe de Croÿ by Rogier van der Weyden, 1460, oil on panel http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/diptych/fullscreen/diptych1.shtm

The Merode Altarpiece by Robert Campin, oil on panel, 1426

(exterior wings) Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, oil on panel, 1473 - 78

Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, oil on panel, 1473 - 78

(detail of landscape) Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, oil on panel, 1473 - 78

Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, oil on panel, 1473 - 78

detail of still life in Portinari Altarpiece

Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, oil on panel, 1473 - 78

detail of angels in Portinari Altarpiece

detail of demon in Portinari Altarpiece

Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, oil on panel, 1473 - 78

Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol, acrylic paint on canvas, 1962 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/warhol-marilyn-diptych-t03093 What affect does it have to repeat the imagery from panel to panel? Within a panel?

Diptych by Francesca DiMattio, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2008 http://www.salon94.com/artists/detail/francesca-dimattio/3077