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Source Description
Although Dürer’s woodcut depicts a later event in the biblical narrative, the composition is similar to the scene from the <em>Mirror of Holiness</em>,<em> "</em>Mary and Joseph Travel to Bethlehem" <a href="https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.145.24.b"><u>CMA 2005.145.24.b</u></a>—even to the inclusion of an ox. Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus fled Jerusalem for Egypt after Joseph was warned in a dream that Jesus’s life was in danger. The dense, dark forest through which the Holy Family travels seems to close threateningly around them. While the Indian artist envisioned a “pack beast” as a camel, Dürer invented a Middle Eastern landscape by incorporating a palm tree and other curious vegetation.
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Document identity
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136178
label
The Flight into Egypt
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print
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1
Source metadata
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136178
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print
title
The Flight into Egypt
description
Although Dürer’s woodcut depicts a later event in the biblical narrative, the composition is similar to the scene from the <em>Mirror of Holiness</em>,<em> "</em>Mary and Joseph Travel to Bethlehem" <a href="https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.145.24.b"><u>CMA 2005.145.24.b</u></a>—even to the inclusion of an ox. Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus fled Jerusalem for Egypt after Joseph was warned in a dream that Jesus’s life was in danger. The dense, dark forest through which the Holy Family travels seems to close threateningly around them. While the Indian artist envisioned a “pack beast” as a camel, Dürer invented a Middle Eastern landscape by incorporating a palm tree and other curious vegetation.
date
c. 1503–5
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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11617
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Print
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1
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Germany, early 16th Century
accession
1959.99.14
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tec
woodcut
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The Life of the Virgin: The Flight into Egypt, c. 1503–5. Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528). Woodcut. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1959.99.14
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The Life of the Virgin
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PR - Woodcut
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1959.112
didYouKnow
The dense forest setting of the <em>Flight into Egypt </em>includes tropical trees and lizards.
citations
citation
Dürer, Albrecht.<em> The Life of the Virgin. </em>Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 14; Plate XIV
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Meder 201 c
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Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-05-29 06:56:44.777000
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136178
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Prints
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PR - Woodcut
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woodcut
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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