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El Greco, The Trinity Domenico Theotocopulos known as "El Greco" - the Greek (Candia, 1541 - Toledo, 1614) The Trinity, 177-79, oil on canvas. Madrid (Spain), Museo del Prado, cm 300 x 178

This peculiar - but not so rare- representation of the Trinity was part of a group of works created for the church "Santo Domingo el Antiguo" (Old saint Dominic) in Toledo. The Trinitarian theme uses the figure (iconography) of the Descent from the Cross. It is the Father, in this case, and not Mary, Jesus` mother, the one who holds the body of the dead Son, just descended from the cross. The large use of yellow in its different tonalities set the scene in the sphere of the divine. We are not on mount Calvary any more, but in Heaven, when the Father, in the presence of the Holy Spirit, seems to take back the Son he had given to man through the mystery of incarnation. Around the central scene we notice the expression of shared grief of six angels.

God loved man so much that he sent us his Son, Jesus, who was crucified, died and rose for our salvation.


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