Marilyn Diptych from writers such as American academic and cultural critic Camille Paglia, who wrote in 2012's "Glittering Images" lauding how it shows the "multiplicity of meanings" in Monroe's life and legacy. In a December 2, 2004 article in "The Guardian", the painting was named the third most influential piece of modern art in a survey of 500 artists, critics, and others. Marilyn Diptych The Marilyn Diptych (1962) is a silkscreen painting by American pop artist Andy Warhol depicting Marilyn Monroe. The piece is one of the artist's most noted works. It is in the collection of the Tate. Silk-screening was the
Symmachi–Nicomachi diptych important events, most often the attainment of the consulship. The diptych form, at least originally, served as a pair of covers for wax writing tablets. The work as a whole has been interpreted as a study in nostalgia. Just as the majority of the Roman world had rejected polytheism in favor of Christianity, so too it left behind the techniques of proportion and perspective that characterised the art of its forebears. ---- Symmachi–Nicomachi diptych The Symmachi–Nicomachi diptych is a book-size, Late Antique ivory diptych dating to the late fourth or early fifth century, whose panels depict scenes of ritual pagan