Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Orazio Gentileschi - 1626/1628 - 138,5 x 216 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Orazio Gentileschi - 1626/1628 - 138,5 x 216 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

oil on canvas • 138,5 x 216 cm
  • Orazio Gentileschi - 1563 - 1639 Orazio Gentileschi 1626/1628

On the run from Herod, the Holy Family rests on the street, in front of a crumbling brick wall. Exhausted, Joseph has fallen asleep while Mary breastfeeds her child. In its depiction of misery as well as dignity, and humble acceptance of a hard fate, Gentileschi combines Caravaggian realism with the aesthetic sense of his Tuscan homeland.

We present today's painting thanks to Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna—one of my favorite European museums. <3

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