Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Rest on the Flight into Egypt
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Rest on the Flight into Egypt
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Alternate Title:
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Riposo nella fuga in Egitto
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Image View:
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Detail, St. Joseph holds music for the angel to play
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Creator:
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian painter, 1571-1610)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria Doria Pamphili (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. 384
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Location Note:
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Via del Corso, 305
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GPS:
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+41.897669+12.481145
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Date:
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1596 - 1597 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Sixteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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135.5 cm (height) x 166.5 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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music; New Testament; saints; Angels; Jesus Christ; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Musical instruments; Holy Family; Saint Joseph; viol
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Description:
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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 is an individualistic representation of this. The artist ingeniously uses the figure of an angel playing the violin with his back to the viewer to divide the composition into two parts. (Source: Web Gallery of Art; http://www.wga.hu/index.html)
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Image Description:
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The music has been identified as a motet by the Flemish composer Noel Bauldeweyn, with a text from the Song of Songs dedicated to the Madonna, Quam pulchra es, "How beautiful you are".
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-C-GDP-FIE-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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