Rest on the Flight into Egypt

1515-1525 (Renaissance)

28.5 cm 40 cm

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Simple images of the Virgin and Child were often found in private homes as an inspiration to prayer and meditation. The Gospels tell us little of the Holy Family's flight into Egypt to escape the wrath of Herod, though later legends describe the family stopping to rest and ta...

Drawing

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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Renaissance
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