The Rest on the Flight into Egypt is a subject in Christian art showing Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus resting during their flight into Egypt. The Holy Family is normally shown in a landscape.
Orazio Gentileschi, 1625–1626
Joachim Patinir, 1518–1520, Prado
Gerard David, c. 1510, National Gallery of Art. Joseph is beating chestnuts from a tree.
Hans Memling triptych, 1475–1480, Louvre
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The flight into Egypt is a story recounted in the Gospel of Matthew and in New Testament apocrypha. Soon after the visit by the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee to Egyp
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
…The Rest on the Flight into Egypt is a subject in Christian art showing Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus resting during their flight into Egypt. The Holy Family is normally shown in a landscape. The subject did not develop until the second half of the fourteenth century, though it was an "obvious…
The Flight into Egypt by Giotto di Bondone (1304–1306, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua)
Fra Bartolomeo, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c. 1500 (Pienza)
Print of the flight into Egypt. Made by Johannes Wierix.
The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt by Jacob Jordaens (c. 1616)