Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Alternate Title:
Landscape with the Flight into Egypt
Image View:
Detail, cityscape in background
Creator:
Annibale Carracci (Italian painter, 1560-1609)
Location:
repository: Galleria Doria Pamphili (Rome, Lazio, Italy) FC 236
Location Note:
Via del Corso 305
GPS:
41.897669 12.481145
Date:
ca. 1604-1605 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Baroque; Seventeenth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
122 cm (height) x 230 cm (width)
Subjects:
cityscape; landscape; New Testament; Holy Family; lunette
Description:
In 1603-1604 Annibale had agreed to paint six lunettes with New Testament scenes in a landscape setting for the chapel in the palazzo of Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini. Before 1605 he had painted one of the lunettes, the Flight into Egypt, and designed the Entombment before he fell ill. The Flight into Egypt is the archetypal statement of what has come to be known as the 'ideal landscape', a rationally constructed landscape in which human figures, buildings, and nature are held in perfect balance. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CARRACCI-FIE-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt