Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Alternate Title:
Riposo nella fuga in Egitto
Image View:
Detail, precise rendering of nature helps make the scene authentic
Creator:
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian painter, 1571-1610)
Location:
repository: Galleria Doria Pamphili (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. 384
Location Note:
Via del Corso, 305
GPS:
41.897669 12.481145
Date:
1596 - 1597 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
135.5 cm (height) x 166.5 cm (width)
Subjects:
music; New Testament; saints; Angels; Jesus Christ; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Musical instruments; Holy Family; Saint Joseph; viol
Description:
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/in dex.html)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-C-GDP-FIE-A09
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt