ALTARPIECE OF THE EPIPHANY

TYPOLOGY 

The small altarpiece of Artajona is included in a series of small "travel" triptychs whose characteristics were defined by Leeuwenberg in 1958. It comprises a single carved central section crowned by a rounded arch and two carved, hinged wings making up its lateral sections that could be closed to protect the altarpiece's central body.

Given its reduced dimensions of little more than 23 cm. high and 29 cm. wide when both wings had been fully opened, this kind of altarpieces depicted one single scene of which the figures on both the side doors formed part. These figures were placed on stands  in a very forced angle of perspective.

The figures are framed with delicate traceries crowning the upper part of the arches whose frames have been decorated with metal objects in the shape of flowers and stars placed around glass spheres.