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Description: | Influenced by the realism of Caravaggio, Gentileschi has treated the subject as if the Holy Family were ordinary Italian peasants. Joseph is old, haggard and exhausted. The Virgin is a young, well-built woman with grubby feet sitting uncomfortably on the floor of a ruined building as she feeds her toddler child. Jesus appears naked and vulnerable glancing apprehensively towards the viewer and we are reminded that this family are refugees escaping from Herod's death-threat. This is one of four versions painted by Gentileschi and is considered to be the earliest, made before the artist left Rome in 1621. In 1926 he settled in England and became Court Painter to Charles I. | Subjects: | religion (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Gentileschi, Orazio (Italian painter, 1563-1639) Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Cantarini, Simone (Italian painter and printmaker, 1612-1648) Previously attributed to Gentileschi, Artemisia (Italian painter, 1593-1652 or 1653) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9172... | Go to resource |
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