Trinity

Robert Campin's Trinity — showing God the Father supporting the crucified Christ with the Holy Spirit as a dove — belongs to the devotional image type known as the Throne of Grace or Gnadenstuhl, popular across northern Europe in the fifteenth century. Campin's version, characteristically, endows the figure of God the Father with a physical solidity and patriarchal authority derived from his sculptural approach to the human figure, giving the heavenly scene a monumental gravity that sets it apart from the more linear treatments of his contemporaries.

The three persons of the Trinity are rendered with Campin's sculptural solidity and precise material description, the gold of God the Father's robe and the wounds of Christ painted with the luminous oil technique that defines early Netherlandish art.