The Trinity (1544): Art, History and Details

The Trinity (1544) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Hans R. Reinhart (German, c. 1500–1581).

The work and its context

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

Commissioned by Duke Moritz of Saxony, this medal depicts the Trinity in the form of the Throne of Grace. God the Father holds the cross on which Christ has been crucified, expressing God’s acceptance of Christ’s sacrifice, with the Holy Spirit between them in the form of a dove.

Object facts

• Title: The Trinity
• Date: 1544
• Creator attribution: Hans R. Reinhart (German, c. 1500–1581)
• Culture: Germany
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: silver
• Dimensions: Diameter: 10.2 cm (4 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1956.337

Collection credit

Gift of G. Garretson Wade

Further reading listed by the museum

• Milliken, William. "A Medallion of the Trinity." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 43, no. 9 (November 1956): 196-197.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.