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The Trinity Altarpiece. The Trinity Altarpiece, also known as the Trinity Altar Panels, is a set of four paintings in oil on wood thought to have been commissioned for the Trinity College Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the late fifteenth century. [1] The panels are now part of the British Royal Collection and are loaned to the Scottish ...
The Pala delle Convertite or The Trinity with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist, (the museum's name) or Holy Trinity, is an altarpiece by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli and his workshop, traditionally dated to c. 1491–1493.
The crowded altarpiece depicts the Trinity, with God the Father holding a crucifix with a still-alive Jesus. Above them, in a cloud of light surrounded by cherubim, is the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. God the Father wears an imperial crown and a wide gilt cloak, lined in green and supported by angels.
Altarpiece of the Holy Trinity (Master of the Litoměřice Altarpiece) Annunciation (van Eyck, Washington) The Apotheosis of Saint Thomas Aquinas; B.
the Holy Trinity; the Madonna of Humility; One reconstruction of the altarpiece's main face. Initially the Judgment, the Holy Trinity and the Saettatura must have all been painted on both sides of the panel, now the only remaining panel painted on both sides is the Saettatura The back, flipped upside-down, depicts Saint Daniel on a red ...
Vigoroso da Siena's altarpiece from 1291 (pictured) is an example. This treatment of the altarpiece would eventually pave the way for the emergence, in the 14th century, of the polyptych. [6] The sculpted elements in the emerging polyptychs often took inspiration from contemporary Gothic architecture. In Italy, they were still typically ...
When it came time to implement the planned renovations of the chapel containing Trinity, circa 1570, Vasari chose to leave the fresco intact and construct a new altar and screen in front of Masaccio's painting, leaving a small gap, and effectively concealing and protecting the earlier work. While it seems plausible that it was Vasari's ...
The altarpiece is composed of a central panel measuring 128.5 x 76 cm and two hinged wings 39 cm wide. The Throne of Grace (in Latin ‘Thronus gratiae’, in German ‘Gnadenstuhl’, in French ‘Trône de grâce’) depicted on the central panel is an iconographical type used c. 1120 in the Cambrai Missal. [ 1 ]