The artist's transfixing triptychs burst with creativity and create a fascinating play of pattern, abstraction and meaning.

Paolo Veneziano, The Crucifixion, about 1340-1345 National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.143 In the mid-14th century, just before the Black Death besieged Venice ...

More ‘JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT 1982 “PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DERELICT” (on the reverse of the left panel) triptych—acrylic, oil, oilstick and hardware on hinged wood construction ...

So is this wooden triptych, painted in the workshop of Robert Campin, an early-15th-century Netherlandish artist. Yes, it’s also a picture — and, as it happens, one of the greatest early ...