Example sentences for: triptych

How can you use “triptych” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some 30 years later, the Annunciation triptych of Simone Martini, with Mary shying away from archangel Gabriel, has the characteristic elegance and poetry of his Siena school.

  • In part, he does it with casting: Of the triptych of leading men, not one is traditional movie-hero material.

  • Plenty of Hollywood glamour photos: The cover triptych shows the usual fresh crop of movie idols to-be.

  • The dignity to which the town aspires is there in the simple interior, illuminated by the magnificent Mantegna triptych (1459) on the high altar; two of its panels are in London.

  • His Flemish contemporary Hugo van der Goes is more down-to-earth in the realism of his huge triptych Adoration of the Shepherds (1478), which influenced Florentine painters like Ghirlandaio.


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