The Holy Trinity (1511): Art, History and Details

The Holy Trinity (1511) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528).

The work and its context

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

The Holy Trinity 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.

Object facts

• Title: The Holy Trinity
• Date: 1511
• Creator attribution: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
• Culture: Germany
• Type: Print
• Technique: woodcut
• Collection: PR - Woodcut
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1926.106

Collection credit

Gift of the President and Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Further reading listed by the museum

• "'The Trinity,' by Albrecht Dürer." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 1 (January 1927): 7-8
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.

View the collection record

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