The Coronation of the Virgin with the Trinity (c. 1400): Art, History and Details

The Coronation of the Virgin with the Trinity (c. 1400) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Master of Rubielos de Mora (Spanish).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The Coronation of the Virgin celebrates the culminating scene in the narrative cycle of the life of the Virgin. The subject follows Mary’s ascent into heaven after her death. Surrounded by a choir of music-making angels, the Virgin kneels to accept her crown from God and Christ. Completing the Trinity is the dove of the Holy Ghost touching its wings to their mouths. In this event, Mary takes on the role of the personification of the Church itself in her depiction as Regina Coeli or Queen of Heaven. The painter takes his name from an altarpiece in the church at Rubielos-de-Mora, Spain, though little is known about him. His style, featuring piercing eyes and protruding mouths with long slender fingers, is characteristic of Valencian art around 1400.

Object facts

• Title: The Coronation of the Virgin with the Trinity
• Date: c. 1400
• Creator attribution: Master of Rubielos de Mora (Spanish)
• Culture: Spain, Valencia
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on panel
• Dimensions: Framed: 158.4 x 101.5 x 9.5 cm (62 3/8 x 39 15/16 x 3 3/4 in.); Overall: 144.6 x 91.4 cm (56 15/16 x 36 in.)
• Collection: MED - Medieval Art
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1947.208

Collection credit

Gift of the Hanna Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Mayer, August L. Geschichte der spanischen malerei. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1922.
• Post, Chandler Rathfon, and Harold E. Wethey. A History of Spanish Painting. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1930.
• Leandro de Saralegui, "Pedro Nicolau" Boletin de la Sociedad Española de Excursiones.

View the collection record

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