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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 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.
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 ]
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 song schools of the abbeys, cathedrals and collegiate churches were closed down, choirs disbanded, music books and manuscripts destroyed and organs removed from churches. [15] The Lutheranism that influenced the early Scottish Reformation attempted to accommodate Catholic musical traditions into worship, drawing on Latin hymns and ...
The Pistoia Santa Trinità Altarpiece is a 1455-1460 egg tempera, tempera grassa and oil on wood painting, begun by Pesellino and completed by Fra Filippo Lippi and his workshop. [1] The main panel of the work is today in the National Gallery in London.
The most usual depiction of the Trinity in Renaissance art depicts God the Father as an old man, usually with a long beard and patriarchal in appearance, sometimes with a triangular halo (as a reference to the Trinity), or with a papal tiara, specially in Northern Renaissance painting. In these depictions The Father may hold a globe or book.
It is founded on a digital archive of images of European medieval and early to high-Renaissance polyphonic music ranging from complete manuscripts to fragments. [4] The collection, created by the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway University of London , [ 5 ] includes metadata for all manuscripts from 800 to 1550 A.D., and most of those ...