The Holy Trinity
Miller, Mary Jane
2008 Byzantine-style Icon
Commentary by the Artist:
"God manifests in tangible form; three persons recognized as one.
To this day, Andrei Rublev’s icon of the Holy Trinity--also known as the Hospitality of Abraham, which was originally painted 15th century Russia.
It is the first and most recognized visual illustration for Holy Trinity theology and doctrine.
In Rublev’s icon, reading from left to right figures portrayed are God the Father, Christ and the Holy Spirit. The Old Testament does not mention any concept of “The Holy Trinity.” Genesis 18 is a short and powerful story about the mercy God has for the righteous. The icon does not show Abraham and Sarah who served the three visitors a meal or how she stood laughing when told she would bear the firstborn of the future generations of Israel. She believed herself to be barren. It does not show Abraham conversing with the “men of God” about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and his concern saying, “Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?” Rublev simplified the story and represented the love and mercy of God in three persons and how they intermingle together as one."
fr: Art in the Christian Tradition,
a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN
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