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Description: | Mary and Joseph's escape from Palestine into Egypt to protect the baby Jesus from King Herod, is mentioned very briefly in St Matthew's gospel, but became a favourite subject for artists, particularly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was especially favoured by artists and patrons who loved imaginary and Arcadian landscapes, but wanted a religious subject for their paintings. Roman artists and Pier Francesco Mola and his Bolognese teacher Francesco Albani often completed an idealised landscape with the Madonna and Child, St Joseph and their donkey resting at the roadside, calling to mind, poverty, exile and the holiness of family life. The pyramid-shaped obelisk on the riverbank in the middle distance may be a nod towards Egypt, although the landscape is inspired by the Roman campagna. This hung with Holburne's favourite cabinet paintings, many of them landscapes, in his study. | Subjects: | landscape; religion (Flight into Egypt; Holy Family) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Italian (Roman) School Æ Attributed to Attributed to Mola, Pier Francesco (Italian painter and draftsman, 1612-1666) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8660... | Go to resource |
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