The Holy Trinity

The Divine as the central motif, with the Angel and the Wing in a secondary part. From The Met, open access.

The motifs the picture carries, filed by role. The marks on the picture itself come with the entry.

  1. 1The Divinecentral motif as it reads here: The Trinity
  2. 2The Angel and the Wingsecondary motif

The Throne of Mercy: God the Father crowned and robed holds the dead Christ, the dove above them, angels with the instruments of the Passion around, the world below; the Divine as the central motif, the Angel by eye. By eye

Not yet decoded: the key and the sourced notes come with the entry. Until then the motifs above are tagged by eye and said so.

Record

Source
Rights
CC0. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access programme places its images and data of public-domain works in the public domain worldwide, for any use.
Restoration
None. A 1020 by 1400 pixel web copy made from the source file; nothing retouched, nothing upscaled.
Series
Artist
Albrecht Dürer, Nuremberg, 1471 to 1528
Checked
the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue record, 4 September 2026: the rights, the maker, the date, the medium, accession 1984.1201.25. The title is theirs. Not seen in the gallery.
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Cite
Symbolica, “The Holy Trinity”, Albrecht Dürer, 1511. thesymbolica.com/work/the-holy-trinity/