Cleveland Museum of Art
The Holy Trinity
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5
- Date
- 1511
- Medium
- woodcut
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 108376
From LinkedCulture
This 1511 woodcut by Albrecht Dürer shows God the Father, crowned in a papal tiara, holding the crucified Christ while the dove of the Holy Spirit descends above them and angels crowd the surrounding clouds. Dürer built up dense crosshatching for deep shadow, then let the raw white paper blaze as pure light, a range of tone woodcut was never thought capable of before. It stands as the pinnacle of his achievement in the medium, proving that woodcut could rival painting itself.
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A religious figure is seated on a throne surrounded by angels and a dove, with a crown and scepter in hand.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The Holy Trinity represents the pinnacle of Dürer's achievement in woodcut. Using a system of parallel lines, crosshatching, and dashes of varying densities, he attained a wide range of tone and an extremely subtle representation of three-dimensional forms and spatial depth. In addition, he utilized white areas of the paper to heighten parts of the composition for an intensely dramatic effect.
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- Gift of the President and Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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