Vocal Music. Chamber Music and Ensembles. Film Music. Stage Works. Performing Rights. Primary School. Martin, were carved in ivory or stone. There are many examples of diptychs in classical art. Surviving pieces from the earliest times are rare and most often held in collections of the world's biggest museums. The Wilton Diptych is an interesting piece from around The two oak panels are held together by iron hinges.

The painting depicts Richard being presented by three saints to the Virgin Mary and Child. As was common, the opposite sides of the diptych are painted as well. Located in Kansas City, MO. Rachel Lauren. Warped , Price Upon Request. View All From Seller. You May Also Like. View Full Details. Mitchell Funk. Stefanie Schneider. Geoffrey Beene. A face was on the inside of each leaf.

One leaf formed a vertical sundial, the other a horizontal sundial. The shadow caster, or gnomon was a string between them, and calibrated as to how far they should open, as the angle is critical. Such a sundial can be adjusted to any latitude by tilting it so its gnomon is parallel to the Earth's axis of rotation.

A common error states that if both dials show the same time, the instrument is oriented correctly and faces north in the northern hemisphere. A Diptych made as stated as a combined vertical and horizontal sundial with a string gnomon will show the same time on both dials regardless of orientation. A double dial on a flat plate consisting of a horizontal and an analemmatic dial will also be aligned properly if both dials show the same time.

Some diptychs had rough calendars, in the form of pelekinons calibrated to a nodus in the form of a bead or knot on the string. These are accurate to about a week, which was good enough to time planting of crops. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Two-part polyptych. Female Voiceover: If you look very closely at the gold halo around Christ, you can see that the artist scratched in this motif of the crown of thorns.

So, both in the way that Mary holds out Christ's foot, and in that reference to the crown of thorns, we have the idea of salvation through Christ's sacrifice on the cross. Male Voiceover: There's also a tremendous contrast that's drawn between the violence in the crown of thorns, and the crown that the angels wear, crowns of rose blossoms. It's just a spectacular painting. Let's take a look at the exterior panels. These are large and simpler images. On the right, you see the white stag, the emblem of Richard II.

You can see that the stag has around his neck a crown, and then hanging from that, is a chain. Look at those antlers, that have almost disappeared against the gold ground, but are tooled differently, so you can just make them out.

Female Voiceover: He's in a field of flowers and rosemary, which is also part of his personal emblem. Male Voiceover: On this opposite panel, you have the emblems of France, of England.

France, you can see the fluer de lis; England, you can just barely make out what had once been a stack of three lions, and you can see that on the right side of the shield.

On the left side, you can see a cross with five birds. Then, there's a lion above that. Female Voiceover: Now, the outside panels have not survived as well as the inside panels, which makes sense.