A triptych, "In-temporalis/ Mercurium" (circa 1950), hints at a trio of butterflies.
There are exceptions, particular the Irish paintings – soldiers, hunger strikers, Orangemen: a triptych in equal tension – which hold the devastating times in mind through sheer graphic force.
The highlights of the collection include Bacon's "Study of the Human Body" (1979), a triptych in which he grapples with his obsession for Michelangelo.
Although Imogene's nickname provides the title of "The Jazz Bird," the novel is actually something of a triptych in which she, George and Charlie are given equal amounts of attention.
The paintings belong to a triptych in which Hockney first experimented with hexagonal canvases.
Faced with such a welter of biographical possibility, the playwright Lanie Robertson seems as confused about how to approach his subject as he is about what to call his play, which is coyly subtitled "A Triptych in Four Parts".
Set in Beaver, Utah, it is a triptych shot in the 1980s that repeats the same small-town tale of an Olivia Newton John obsessive who aspires to perform like her at the local talent show.
There is something monasterial in this new family's home: low, slanted wood ceilings; a triptych formed in the reflection of a mirror; a hoodie in the shape of a halo — and it takes only slight tips of Ferrané's wife's head for the photos of her and the baby to resemble one famous "Madonna and Child" or another.
Pallucchini attributed to El Greco a small triptych in the Galleria Estense at Modena on the basis of a signature on the painting on the back of the central panel on the Modena triptych ("", Created by the hand of Doménikos).
Passionate subjects such as The Entombment, Pietà, and scenes of the Crucifixion, the Deposition from the Cross, and the Resurrection depicted in an impressive triptych in the Royal Chapel in Granada, Spain, were appropriate vehicles for this expression.
