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Adoration of the Trinity
Adoration of the Trinity (also known as Landauer Altarpiece; German: "Allerheiligenbild" or "Landauer Altar") is an oil-on-panel painting by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, executed in 1511 and now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
History.
The work was commissioned by the rich merchant Matthäus Landauer of Nuremberg for a chapel dedicated to the Holy Trinity and All the Saints in the "Zwölfbrüderhaus" ("House of Twelve Brothers"), which he
The Gonzaga Family in Adoration of the Holy Trinity
The Gonzaga Family in Adoration of the Holy Trinity is a painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, housed in the Ducal Palace of Mantua, northern Italy.
The work was commissioned by Duke Vincenzo I Gonzaga for the Jesuit church in Mantua. The work represents the central part of a triptych, in which the two side panels depicted the "Transfiguration" and the "Baptism of Christ". During the French occupation of northern Italy, in the early 19th century