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Albrecht Dürer, Adoration of the Trinity (Landauer Altarpiece), 1511
God the Father holds the cross with the Son before him; above them hovers the dove. Around the Trinity the saints are gathered in the clouds, and below them the Christians on earth, from pope and emperor to a peasant with his flail.
The Nuremberg merchant Matthäus Landauer ordered the picture for the chapel of the home he had founded for twelve old craftsmen; it was dedicated to the Trinity and All Saints. Dürer also designed the carved frame. The emperor Rudolf II later brought the painting to Prague.
The Father presents the Son on the cross, his cloak held open by angels.
Alone in the landscape below stands Dürer himself, beside a tablet with his name and the year 1511.
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