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The holy trinity explained!
After Titian, 'The Trinity ('La Gloria')', late 17th century?
This is a copy of Titian’s large composition known as ‘La Gloria’ (The Glory) but referred to by Titian himself as The Trinity.
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He developed it for a painting commissioned by the Emperor Charles V when the artist was in Augsburg (in Germany) in 1551. Delivered in 1554, Charles took it with him to his retirement residence at Yuste in Extremadura. After his death, it was brought to the monastery of the Escorial along with the Emperor’s remains.
It has been in the Prado, Madrid, since 1837.
The Emperor and Empress with their son Prince Philip (the future King Philip II of Spain) and his sisters kneel wearing only shrouds before God the Father and Christ.
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The dove of the Holy Ghost appears in the heavens between them in a blaze of light. The Virgin Mary glides up through the clouds wrapped in a cloak of ultramarine like the robes of God and Christ enthroned above. The blue of their robes ma