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The Holy Trinity

Albrecht Dürer1511

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

<em>The Holy Trinity</em> represents the pinnacle of Dürer's achievement in woodcut. Using a system of parallel lines, crosshatching, and dashes of varying densities, he attained a wide range of tone and an extremely subtle representation of three-dimensional forms and spatial depth. In addition, he utilized white areas of the paper to heighten parts of the composition for an intensely dramatic effect.

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  • Title: The Holy Trinity
  • Creator: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528)
  • Date Created: 1511
  • Type: Print
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.106
  • Medium: woodcut
  • Department: Prints
  • Culture: Germany, 16th century
  • Credit Line: Gift of the President and Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
  • Collection: PR - Woodcut
  • Accession Number: 1926.106
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