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	Wilton Diptych
		The Wilton Diptych is a portable altarpiece dating from around 1395-9.
		On the left hand side panel of the diptych, Richard is shown kneeling.
		The Virgin Mary is depicted on the right hand side of the diptych, along with a company of eleven angels.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/Wilton_Diptych.html (84 words)

	Books \| The Wilton Diptych, c1395-99
		Diptychs were commissioned by the wealthy pious as personal instruments of devotion to be used at home or travelling.
		The Wilton Diptych 's painter shares the Limbourgs' love of deep sky blue, the colour of the virgin.
		The glory of the Wilton Diptych is in the blue chromatic otherworld of the Virgin's realm.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4659647-110738,00.html (477 words)

	Richard II presented to the Virgin and Child by his Patron Saint John the Baptist and Saints Edward and Edmund ('The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Wilton Diptych was painted as a portable altarpiece for the private devotion of King Richard II, who ruled England from 1377 to 1399.
		The diptych is thought to have been made in the last five years of Richard's reign, although its artist remains unknown.
		It is called The Wilton Diptych because it came from Wilton House in Wiltshire, the seat of the Earls of Pembroke.
	www.nationalgallery.org.uk /cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG4451 (257 words)

	ReedDesign - The Wilton Diptych
		One of the treasures of the National Gallery, the diptych is also one of its most enigmatic pictures.
		It is likely that the diptych was commissioned for private devotion, both in and as a reminder of, Westminster Abbey, where he was crowned and would later be buried.
		The Wilton Diptych can be seen in the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery, London.
	www.reeddesign.co.uk /wilton1.html (373 words)

	BBC - Painting Flowers - Wilton Diptych
		The diptych was commissioned by Richard II, who is portrayed kneeling in prayer and surrounded by allies, being presented by three saints to the Virgin and Child.
		Diptychs were sought by the wealthy as personal instruments of devotion, to provoke pious thoughts and accompany prayer even while travelling.
		You will see what I mean by examining the facial details, which show an extraordinary correspondence: the arch of the eyebrows, the long contiguous sweep from the forehead to the tip of the nose, the particular shape of the upper lip and mouth in general, and the peculiar pudgyness of the chin.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/paintingflowers/paintings/wilton_diptych.shtml (768 words)

	Wilton Diptych: Virgin and Child with Angels by UNKNOWN MASTER, French
		This is the right panel of the Wilton Diptych (named after the house in which it was preserved), the finest work in England in the International Gothic style.
		Although it is a painting of extraordinary beauty and must be from the hand of an artist of the highest rank, critics disagree as to whether he was English, French or Italian.
		Surely it is an outstanding example of a private image, a portable diptych that would follow the king on his travels.
	www.wga.hu /html/m/master/yunk_fr/yunk_fr1/07wilton.html (344 words)

	History of Art
		The Wilton Diptych is “the most studied painting in the history of European art”[37] but the lack of evidence has enabled controversy to flourish and this makes the work valuable in revealing the practices of art history.
		Morgan, N. ‘The Signification of the Banner in the Wilton Diptych’ in D. Gordon (ed.), The Regal Image of Richard II and the Wilton Diptych (London, Harvey Miller, 1997), pp.
		Gordon in The Meaning of the Wilton Diptych says that eleven angels are used in reference to Richard “being in his eleventh year” (a neat way of linking the number of angels with his age).
	www.shafe.co.uk /art/essay_wilton_diptych.asp (3328 words)

	The Wilton Diptych - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is considered an outstanding example of the International Gothic style and (possibly) of English art of the period.
		Its first documented appearance is from an 1649 inventory of the art collection of Charles I.
		The painting is indicative of both Richard's belief in his divine right to rule and his genuine devotion to Christianity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Wilton_Diptych (409 words)

	Take One Picture/Previous Pictures
		This painting on two hinged oak panels (a diptych) takes its name from Wilton House in Wiltshire, where it was kept from the 18th century until it was bought by the National Gallery in 1929.
		The outside of the diptych shows a white stag with a chain around its neck, and a shield showing the coat of arms of Edward the Confessor.
		The size of the Wilton Diptych indicates that it was made as a portable altarpiece for private devotion.
	www.takeonepicture.org /picture/previous_wilton.html (165 words)

	Wilton Diptych: Richard II of England with his patron saints by UNKNOWN MASTER, French
		Wilton Diptych: Richard II of England with his patron saints by UNKNOWN MASTER, French
		Wilton Diptych: Richard II of England with his patron saints
		This is the left panel of the Wilton Diptych (named after the house in which it was preserved), the finest work in England in the International Gothic style.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /html/m/master/yunk_fr/yunk_fr1/06wilton.html (397 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Diptych
		He is credited also with the diptych of René and his wife, Jeanne Laval (Louvre).
		Diptych in verse: gender hybridity, language consciousness, and national identity in Nirala's "Jago Phir Ek Bar".(Hindi poetry)
		The Regal Image of Richard II and the Wilton Diptych.(Review)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Diptych (391 words)

	Applying the Paint and the Technique of Color Modeling
		The Wilson Diptych is a small folding altarpiece, which is presumed to have been commissioned by King Richard II of England for his private devotions.
		The lack of spatial illusion is not a problem to the contemporary spectator of the Wilton Diptych.
		In the Wilton Diptych, the darkest tint of a color is found in the deepest shade.
	webexhibits.org /colorart/to3.html (1414 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Regal Image of Richard II and the Wilton Diptych: Livres en anglais: Dillian Gordon,L. Monnas,C. Elam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Wilton Diptych, in the National Gallery in London, has always been the focus of attention, not only because of its intrinsic beauty as a work of art but also because its evident personal link with Richard II - a king who was ever conscious of the regal image and his God-given monarchical status.
		Following the important exhibition at the National Gallery in 1992, after the cleaning of the panels, a symposium was held on all aspects of the painting itself, and on the history and arts of Richard II's time.
		Celia Fisher looks at the meaning of the flowers depicted in the field of Paradise in which the Virgin and Angels are set, and the individual plants on which the White Hart is couched, and Lucy Sandler compares devotional images in contemporary manuscripts.
	www.amazon.fr /Regal-Image-Richard-Wilton-Diptych/dp/1872501729 (507 words)

	The Wilton Diptych - Icons of England
		The Wilton Diptych, painted by an unknown artist in the 1390s, is one of the finest medieval English paintings.
		It is named after Wilton House, home of the earls of Pembroke who once owned it.
		The Wilton Diptych represents one of the great pre-Reformation examples of European devotional art and is truly an icon of England's Catholic heritage which, post Reformation, the establishment has sought to eradicate, including our patron Saint, Edward the Confessor.
	www.icons.org.uk /nom/nominations/the-wlton-dyptich (211 words)

	Unknown- Wilton Diptych (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Wilton Diptych is a work that combines a sense of peace, majesty, awesome power, purity, poignancy, and elegance.
		At first glance the faces of the angels all look the same but each possesses its own distinct character.
		Art historians have debated his identity and most agree that he was English but there is still no clear-cut proof.
	www.mystudios.com /treasure/wilton/wilton_review.html (78 words)

	Amazon.com: "Wilton Diptych": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A possible allusion to the story is found in the Wilton Diptych, painted in the 1390s, in the left-hand panel of which three saints, two of them kings, are shown presenting Richard...
		' Consider the example of the Wilton Diptych, the Famous panel often thought to have been painted for King Richard.67 In the left-hand panel, Richard is depicted kneeling...
		The Wilton Diptych This anonymous masterpiece is now on continual public display, open and fully visible.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Wilton-Diptych (606 words)

	The Wilton Diptych, by English or French painter
		The Wilton Diptych, by English or French painter
		But it'll mean merging 16 separate puzzle pieces, which on the few occasions I've done something like this was quite tedious.
		Posters from the Wilton Diptych are available at AllPosters.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /masterscans/l77.html (143 words)

	Richard II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Richard II This famous portrait of young Richard II enthroned is from a panel in Westminster Abbey (painted c.
		The Wilton Diptych (commissioned by Richard around 1395 and housed in the National Gallery in London) is a masterpiece of fourteenth century painting.
		Richard II was buried in Wesminster Abbey with his beloved first wife Anne of Bohemia.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~jhsy/chaucer-ppp-rich2.html (172 words)

	Wilton House - History - Timeline
		The 2nd Earl and his wife are great patrons of the arts, and John Aubrey, the 17th-century diarist, wrote that in Mary Sidney’s time ‘Wilton House was like a college, there were so many learned and ingeniose persons.
		She was the greatest patroness of wit and learning of any lady in her time.’ Frequent visitors to Wilton House include Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson, and John Donne.
		While staying at Wilton House, Sir Philip Sidney begins to write his Arcadia, which he dedicates to his sister.
	www.wiltonhouse.co.uk /dda/hist_timeline.htm (960 words)

	The Wilton Diptych (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Wilton Diptych, created in the late Middle Ages, is one of the most beautiful and enigmatic paintings ever made.
		The intricacy of detail, the refinement and subtlety of its varied techniques and decorative effects, the lushness of its colors and the exquisite tooling of the gold—all, remarkably well preserved—are unmatched in any of the other few panel paintings that survive from this period.
		As a result of recent investigations by the National Gallery's Scientific and Conservation Departments, valuable technical information is presented about the materials used in the painting, which has both a bearing on its origin and emphasizes the extraordinary craftsmanship of the diptych.
	yalepress.yale.edu /yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300061501 (196 words)

	Making and Meaning: The Wilton Diptych
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Making and Meaning: The Wilton Diptych to receive a rating.
		One of the most famous anonymous paintings, "The Wilton Diptych" is a work commissioned by King Richard II some time between the years of 1395-1399.
		It depicts Richard kneeling in the presence of St. Edmund, St. Edward the Confessor, and St. John the Baptist on one panel coupled with a companion panel of the Virgin Mary and child surrounded by angels.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/making_and_meaning_the_wilton_diptych (350 words)

	The Wilton Diptych - White Hart by Unknown Art Posters: PicassoMio.com
		The Wilton Diptych - White Hart by Unknown Art Posters: PicassoMio.com
		The Wilton Diptych - White Hart by Unknown
		Frame this poster with a variety of high quality frames, mats, and glass.
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	Medieval History Level II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Wilton Diptych on the National Gallery CD-ROM
		You then get a reference for your selection and there is only one reference for Wilton Diptych
		When you have finished looking at the Wilton Diptych, feel free to explore the CD more fully for other artists or paintings.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /History/Medieval/Level2/mhl2ng.htm (302 words)

	sell.com classifieds : The Wilton Diptych (verso): White Hart Stretched Canvas for sale in Austin (22D47W)
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		The Art Of Painting In Florence and Siena From 1250 To 1500; A Loan Exhibition, 24 February-10 April 1965, Wildenstein
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		Making andamp; Meaning: the Wilton Diptych (Making andamp; Meaning Series) Dillian Gordon ISBN: 0300061501
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