Triptych

Triptych

a picture with two folding-doors, set over altars. The center panel usually contains the chief subject. In the illustration (from the pencil of Mr. A. Welby Pugin) the triptych is a kind of cupboard with folding-doors, containing a throned figure of the Virgin Mary crowned, and holding her divine child in her lap. A figure of Peter on one side and of Paul on the other are painted on the inner panels of the doors.