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DÜRER, Albrecht: The Trinity

🖼 The Trinity, c. 1511
Woodcut
London, United Kingdom

Soaring vertigo frames Christ's crucifixion suspended between God the Father and the Holy Spirit, rendered in intricate woodcut with precise linear perspective. Dürer's theological composition synthesizes Renaissance humanism with Northern mysticism, establishing the Trinity as cosmic hierarchy—a pivotal Protestant-era meditation on divine structure.

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