La Gloria (The Trinity in Glory)
The original, as its museum records it
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About this painting
An epitaph is painted for a man already dead. Charles V ordered one of himself while he was still emperor: the imperial family kneeling barefoot in burial shrouds, the crown beside him and not on his head.
Only the Virgin walks toward the Trinity, the Prado notes, instead of gazing at it, dressed in the same blue as the Father and the Son. The emperor waits, and above him the paint thins until the bare ground shows through.
Titian finished it in October 1554. Charles did not abdicate until 1556.
Sources: Museo del Prado object page · National Gallery, London catalogue entry · The National Gallery, London, 'Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor'.
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,051 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.