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The Holy Trinity
c. 1620 · oil on panel · KMSKA, Antwerp
For Trinity Sunday
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image 18×18.5 in on a 18×24 in sheet
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All editionsAbout this painting
The Father's hands are full: one lifts the shroud, the other opens outward, and between them lies His Son, dead, the head fallen back against the Father. The feet come toward us, foreshortened, the wounds in them. The Dove hangs above. An angel on the left holds the lance and the crown of thorns; the one on the right wipes his eye. Scripture shows the three Persons together once, at the Jordan, where nobody dies; Rubens builds the doctrine out of a body. Art in Flanders reads the gesture: the Father shows the faithful the body of His Son, tortured to death. Judoca van der Capelle gave the painting to an altar of Antwerp's Calced Carmelite church on 10 April 1621, and she and her husband, Jan de Pape, lay buried in front of it. The body is still held out to us, feet first.
Sources: Art in Flanders (artinflanders.be), entry 'Heilige Drievuldigheid' · Vlaamse Kunstcollectie, Peter Paul Rubens biography page · Valerie Herremans, Rubens Unveiled: Paintings from Lost Antwerp Churches (2013), reviewed HNA Reviews, April 2015 · KMSKA (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp), object page · Douay-Rheims, Matthew 3:16-17