Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

baroque

Caravaggio Paintings 1571 - 1610 Italy, Baroque Painter

Rest on Flight to Egypt, 1596-1597

Oil on canvas, 52 1/2 x 65 1/2 inches (133.5 x 166.5 cm)

Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome

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OIL PAINTING: Rest on Flight to Egypt, 1596-1597
The story of the Holy Family's flight was one of the most popular apocryphal legends which survived the prohibitive decrees of the Council of Trent and often appeared in painting from the end of the sixteenth century. Caravaggio's idyllic painting - Rest on Flight to Egypt is an individualistic representation of this.