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Description: | This painting is almost certainly a work by the famous Baroque artist from Bologna, Guido Reni. The painting shows Mary and Joseph fleeing with the baby Jesus to Egypt, to escape the massacre of children ordered by Herod. Reni's typically sweet and gracious style, for which he was famed, is manifest both in the face of the Virgin, and in the detail of the angel offering her a flower. This detail corresponds to a painting described by Reni's biographer as being in the Palazzo Colonna, Rome, during the seventeenth century. | Subjects: | angel Joseph Flight into Egypt) religion (Virgin Mary Christ Child | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Reni, Guido (Italian painter and draftsman, 1575-1642) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8854... | Go to resource |
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