Best Polyptych
The Ghent Altarpiece, also called The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, is a large polyptych completed in 1432 for Saint Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent. An inscription associates it with the brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck, although their respective contributions remain debated. Its many painted panels comb...
The Veit Stoss Altarpiece is a monumental carved and painted winged altarpiece made for Saint Mary's Basilica in Kraków and completed in 1489. Constructed principally from limewood, it rises approximately 13 metres and centers on a crowded scene of the Dormition of the Virgin, with other Marian and...
The Beaune Last Judgment Altarpiece is a large polyptych painted by Rogier van der Weyden around 1445 to 1450 for the Hôtel-Dieu in Beaune, Burgundy. Commissioned by the hospital's founder, Nicolas Rolin, and his wife, Guigone de Salins, it depicts Christ judging humanity as Saint Michael weighs res...
The Saint Vincent Panels are six surviving painted panels attributed to the Portuguese court painter Nuno Goncalves and generally dated to the fifteenth century. They portray Saint Vincent in two central images, surrounded by groups of clergy, nobles, soldiers, monks, and other figures represented w...
The Pisa Polyptych was an extensive altarpiece painted by Masaccio in 1426 for a chapel in the Carmelite church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Pisa. It combined a central enthroned Madonna and Child with saints, a Crucifixion, predella narratives, and other panels arranged in a Gothic frame. The stru...
The Pesaro Polyptych is a multi-panel altarpiece painted by Giovanni Bellini around 1471-1474 for the church of San Francesco in Pesaro, Italy. Its central scene depicts the Coronation of the Virgin within a marble throne structure that opens onto a carefully observed landscape, while standing saint...
The Stefaneschi Altarpiece is a double-sided polyptych produced by Giotto and his workshop around 1320 for Old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Cardinal Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi commissioned it for an altar associated with Saint Peter and appears within the work as a kneeling donor holding a model o...
The Averoldi Polyptych is a five-panel altarpiece painted by Titian and completed in 1522 for the church of Santi Nazaro e Celso in Brescia, where it remains. It was commissioned by Altobello Averoldi, a papal representative in Venice. The central panel shows the resurrected Christ rising above sold...
Piero della Francesca's Polyptych of the Misericordia (c. 1445–1462), in the Museo Civico, Sansepolcro, is an early commission featuring the protective Virgin sheltering supplicants beneath her mantle.
The Polyptych of the Misericordia is a multi-panel altarpiece by Piero della Francesca, commissioned in 1445 by the Confraternity of Mercy in Sansepolcro. Its central panel depicts the Virgin of Mercy standing frontally and extending her cloak around kneeling members of the confraternity, creating a...
The Baroncelli Polyptych is an early fourteenth-century altarpiece in the Baroncelli Chapel of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence. Its central composition depicts the Coronation of the Virgin surrounded by densely ordered groups of angels and saints, while the side panels contain additional hol...
The Bologna Polyptych is a multi-panel altarpiece painted by Giotto and his workshop around 1330, now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. Its central image of the Virgin and Child is flanked by standing saints beneath pointed Gothic arches. The work combines a traditional devotional format with...
The Perugia Polyptych is an altarpiece painted by Fra Angelico for the church of San Domenico in Perugia and now preserved in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria. Dating from the early Italian Renaissance, it consists of multiple panels centered on the Virgin and Child, accompanied by saints and smal...
The Polyptych of Saint Luke is an altarpiece painted by Andrea Mantegna in the 1450s for the church of Santa Giustina in Padua and now preserved in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. Its separate panels present Saint Luke with other saints arranged within a unified architectural framework. The work i...
Multi-panel altarpiece attributed to Giotto (c. 1301–1302), made for the Badia Fiorentina in Florence; its panels are now dispersed across several museum collections.
Early 14th-century polyptych by Sienese master Simone Martini, painted for the church of Santa Chiara in Naples and notable for its refined gold-ground Gothic elegance.
The Certosa di Pavia Altarpiece is a Renaissance polyptych painted by Pietro Perugino for the Carthusian monastery known as the Certosa di Pavia. Created around the end of the fifteenth century, it presented sacred figures in Perugino's characteristically calm, balanced settings. The work was later...
The Polyptych of San Pietro is a Renaissance altarpiece painted by Pietro Perugino for the Benedictine church of San Pietro in Perugia. Completed around the end of the fifteenth century, it originally combined a monumental central sacred scene with subsidiary panels depicting saints and other devoti...
The Bamberg Altarpiece is a carved wooden altarpiece by the German sculptor Veit Stoss, created for Bamberg Cathedral in the early sixteenth century. Its reliefs and figures present Christian devotional subjects through deeply cut drapery, animated gestures, and the intricate surface treatment assoc...
Polyptych No. 28 is a multi-panel devotional painting attributed to Duccio di Buoninsegna, a central figure in the development of Sienese painting. Executed in tempera and gold on wood, it presents sacred figures in separate compartments against luminous gold grounds. Its refined line, restrained mo...
The Jabach Altarpiece is a partially preserved work painted by Albrecht Dürer around 1503 to 1504 and later named for the Cologne collector Everhard Jabach. Its surviving oil-on-panel components are dispersed, with panels held by the Städel Museum in Frankfurt and the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Colo...
The Colonna Altarpiece is an early altarpiece by Raphael, made around 1504 to 1505 for a Franciscan convent in Perugia. Its central panel depicts the enthroned Madonna and Child with saints and shows Raphael working within the devotional traditions of Umbrian Renaissance painting. The ensemble was l...
The Recanati Polyptych is a multi-panel altarpiece painted by Lorenzo Lotto and completed in 1508 for the church of San Domenico in Recanati, Italy. Centered on the Virgin and Child, it arranges saints across separate panels beneath an upper register that includes a Pietà. The work belongs to Lotto'...
Polyptych by Luca Signorelli for the church of San Domenico, depicting Dominican saints with the sculptor-like figure modeling characteristic of his style.
The high altarpiece of St. George's Church in Nördlingen, Germany, features painted panels by Friedrich Herlin dating to the 1460s and is a significant work of late Gothic German painting.
A medieval panel altarpiece from the Dominican church in Frankfurt, Germany, representing Gothic devotional painting of the Rhine-Main region now associated with Frankfurt's museum collections.
The Polyptych of Albani-Torlonia is a multi-panel Italian altarpiece associated with the Albani and Torlonia collections in Rome, representing the early devotional panel-painting tradition.
A Gothic altarpiece originating from Weingarten Abbey in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, representing medieval carved and painted panel work from the religious foundations of the region.
