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Cartoline
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 27.8 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 10.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,110
Old creek road, Mixed Media on Paper
Kurt Waldo
Painting - 76.2 x 116.8 x 0.8 cm Painting - 30 x 46 x 0.3 inch
$1,800
Happy Diptych in "Washi"
Jan Sullivan Fowler
Painting - 76.2 x 152.4 x 3.81 cm Painting - 30 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$1,750
Oasis d'abondance
Enfant Précoce / Francis Essoua Kalu
Painting - 210 x 280 x 2 cm Painting - 82.7 x 110.2 x 0.8 inch
$25,785
63°18'1" N, 20°34'36" O
Stéphane Spach
Photography - 40 x 108 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 42.5 x 0.2 inch
$2,130
Abstrait Les danseuses
Françoise Danel
Painting - 129 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 50.8 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,493
Promenade au parc II Diptyque
Agnès Tiollier
Painting - 65 x 184 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 72.4 x 1 inch
$2,803
Me soaking up the light and The weight of your head.
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 10.2 x 15.2 x 7.6 cm Sculpture - 4 x 6 x 3 inch
$400
Why do you insist on shattering, and eyes that are.
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 10.2 x 15.2 x 7.6 cm Sculpture - 4 x 6 x 3 inch
$400
Si il suo amore e per Sempre
Karl Lagasse
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$16,817
The teaching (diptych)
Moksananda
Painting - 65 x 108 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 42.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,749
Sine qua non (diptych)
Moksananda
Painting - 72 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 28.3 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,940
Baobabs en terre rouge 1-2
Michèle Magnien (Mileg)
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$729
Les misérables diptyque
Didier Gomez
Painting - 130 x 194 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,018
Landscape 2 (diptych)
Karina Antonczak
Painting - 74.7 x 139.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 29.4 x 55 x 1 inch
$2,650
Vogelfrei No.6
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 89.9 x 59.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 1.5 inch
$980
Cosmas and Damian
Salvatore Travascio
Painting - 115 x 140 x 1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 55.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,242
Mirror Conversations 02
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1 inch
$450
Printemps au parc diptyque
Agnès Tiollier
Painting - 89 x 260 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35 x 102.4 x 1 inch
$6,502
Orpheus III, Diptych
Yari Ostovany
Painting - 50.8 x 81.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 20 x 32 x 2 inch
$3,400
Fenêtre sur l'Italie - série mer et bateaux
Namy
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,186
Whispers of the forest
Maria Esmar
Painting - 90 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,794
Meta Color XVI
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,792
Meta Color XV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,792
Meta Color XIV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,792
Meta Color X
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,792
Meta Color II
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,792
Temporal Perception #333
Serge Hamad
Photography - 91.4 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$2,250
Temporal Perception #340
Serge Hamad
Photography - 91.4 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$2,250
Temporal Perception #339
Serge Hamad
Photography - 91.4 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$2,250
Temporal Perception #337
Serge Hamad
Photography - 91.4 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$2,250
Temporal perception # 161
Serge Hamad
Photography - 91.4 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$2,250
Là où se cache le secret des choses
Brigitte Di Scala
Painting - 100 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
$7,848
Landscape 1 (diptych)
Karina Antonczak
Painting - 100.1 x 140 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 1 inch
$2,950
Mirror conversations 04
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
$200
Untitled 3631 & 3637
Maria Paola Coda
Painting - 100 x 162 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63.8 x 1.2 inch
$7,035
Le cri des vagues
Vivianne Paris Panigiris
Sculpture - 60 x 40 x 3 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,018
La Mer Des Rêves - Diptych
Vivianne Paris Panigiris
Sculpture - 60 x 40 x 3 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,018
La mer des rêves 1/30 set
Vivianne Paris Panigiris
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 3 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.2 inch
$673
Peace and joy of summer days (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 80 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$1,177
Noir de carbone - Hommage à Pierre Soulages
Ronan Martin
Painting - 61 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,924
Du noir émerge la couleur : Pierre Soulages
Ronan Martin
Painting - 61 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,924
Song Of The Sunflowers, Summer Dreams
Cynthia Ligeros
Painting - 30.5 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 12 x 24 x 2 inch
$720
Jazz: Thinking Out Loud, Reaching for Song #13/14
Ellen Priest
Painting - 76.2 x 152.4 cm Painting - 30 x 60 inch
$9,545
La pierre et le vent
Thalia Dalecky
Painting - 20 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,099
The smile and the bomb (a tribute to Banksy)
Dr. Love
Painting - 80 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$100
Look Alike, Look Alive
Lukasz Olek
Painting - 200 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,493
Gutta -Percha Hunter (diptych)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$6,233
Read the City (Diptych)
Abhishek Kumar
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 2 inch
$2,000
Diptych Artworks
Think that triptychs and diptychs are only religious artworks? Not at all! Two-piece artworks can be made in all kinds of media such as painting, drawing or photography. In modern and contemporary art, some works are imagined and arranged in two parts. Artists also create optical illusions which imitate diptychs by splitting the painting in two. Thanks to these two part artworks, these works of art will bring depth and volume to your interior. Since Andy Warhol's famous 'Marilyn Diptych', duo works have never been out of fashion
A diptych ("di" meaning two and "ptyche" meaning fold in Greek) is any object with two flat plates attached at a hinge. Diptychs are usually 2D works composed of 2 pieces. They are completed in a variety of media including painting, photography and drawing, and also represent all types of subject matter including, portraits, landscapes and abstract art.
Diptychs have been a popular art form amongst artists for centuries. Generally there is a link between the panels, where subjects often engage with or look at each other from the two sections. Alternatively, it could depict a single work that is continued across the two parts. This means the diptych could provide two alternative viewpoints of a single scene, or share the same color and composition but show two different themes. In art history, the diptych was used to present certain scenarios. These were often scenes of marriage (husband and wife on different panels), life and death or wealth and poverty.
In modern and contemporary art, some works are imagined and arranged in two. Artists also create “trompes l'oeil" (literally means “deceive the eye") which are optical illusions that imitate diptychs by splitting the painting in two. This can be as simple as applying a straight line through the centre of the work. In Late Antiquity, "consular diptychs" were made to mark an individual's election as Roman consul. These were created in wood, ivory or metal.
The diptych was additionally used in early Christian literature to tell stories of saints, Christ and the Virgin Mary. The form facilitated the transportation of these stories, since it could be closed like a book to preserve its interior.
Diptychs were additionally present in classical and modern art (of the 20th century). However, very few old pieces of this art form survived, and those that did are kept in the most renowned museums worldwide.
In 1935, King Richard II commissioned the Wilton Diptych, a small portable diptych and extremely rare Medieval religious painting from England. It is now in the National Gallery in London. Measuring 53 x 37 cm, the Baltic oak panels depict a kneeling Richard II on one panel, praying to the Virgin Mary on the other.
The Louvre has the Diptych of Jean Carondelet in its possession, which was created by Jean Gossaert in 1517. The diptych is a work of private devotion, yet underlines the Flemish painter's talent for portraiture. Jean Carondelet is shown praying towards the right panel where an image of the Virgin Mary is also painted. However, unlike the Wilton Diptych, this is actually a double diptych as the back of the piece is painted with a coat of arms and a skull (vanitas).
Alternatively, one of the most famous diptychs only dates back to 1962, and was completed by Pop art master, Andy Warhol. His famous “Marilyn Diptych" shows two serigraphs: one in color and one in black and white. According to the Tate, this “evokes [Marilyn Monroe's] ubiquitous presence in the media. The contrast of vivid colour with black and white, and the effect of fading in the right panel are suggestive of the star's mortality."
Discover the art of the diptych in all its forms with this unique selection from Artsper! Uncover the abstract painting of Tommaso Fattovich, the quirky messages of Agnès Thurnauer, the vibrant compositions of Novi Lim, the enchanting colors of Ron Halfant, the maritime views of Ana Hefco or the meditative photographs of Serge Hamad.