# The Trinity with the Dead Christ [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CARRACCI, Lodovico]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 173 x 127 cm ## Commentary The Trinity with the Dead Christ c. 1590 Oil on canvas, 173 x 127 cm Pinacoteca, Vatican The painting can be called "Guercinesque", it anticipates the style of Guercino. Lodovico managed to express the transcendent in terms of great intimacy and sincere humanity, qualities that were to be indispensable in the formation of the young Guercino. The subject, very unusual at the time of the Counter-Reformation, goes back to a purely medieval iconographic idea. Instead of the traditional, hierarchical representation of the Trinity with God the Father between the Holy Spirit and Christ on the Cross, Lodovico combines this theme with a scene of the Pieta, in which Christ is received into the Father's arms rather than those of the Virgin and is surrounded by angels who bear the symbols of the Passion. The painting formerly was attributed to Annibale Carraci but this attribution was correctly changed in 1956 in favour of Lodovico. ## Related artworks - [An Angel Frees the Souls of Purgatory]() - [Annunciation]() - [Bargellini Madonna]() - [Battle of the Romans and Sabines]() - [Christ Served by Angels in the Wilderness]() - [Portrait of Carlo Alberto Rati Opizzoni in Armour]() - [Portrait of the Tacconi Family]() - [Presentation in the Temple]() - [Romulus and Remus Suckled by the Wolf]() - [St Peter in Penitence]() - [The Conversion of St Paul]() - [The Death of Amulius]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()