Sunday, June 07, 2020

B.E. Murillo, The Two Trinities, 1675-1682.  (Image: Web Gallery of Art)

Today is Trinity Sunday.  Murillo (1617-1682) was a Spanish Baroque artist who painted many hopeful, beautiful religious paintings despite his harsh life and the difficult times in which he lived.  This image combines the Holy Trinity (the three Persons who are one God) and the Holy Family.  According to the Web Gallery of Art:

The Christ Child is raised on a dressed stone, both a compositional device to set him at the apex of a triangle in the centre of the painting and symbolic: 'thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion...a precious corner stone, a sure foundation' (Isaiah 28:16). As the clouds part to reveal the divine light, their shadows temper the bold red and ultramarine blue, the apricots, pinks, gold and white of the highlights to a wonderful overall harmony, a haze of grey, sky-blue and saffron.

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