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Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Caravaggio)
Painting by Caravaggio
Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c. 1597 creation) is a painting by the ItalianBaroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, in the Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome.
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, like the Flight into Egypt, was a popular subject in art, but Caravaggio's composition, with an angel playing the viol to the Holy Family, is unusual.
Subject matter
The scene is based not on any incident in the Bible itself, but on a body of tales or legends that had grown up in the early Middle Ages around the Bible story of the Holy Familyfleeing into Egypt for refuge on being warned that Herod the Great was seeking to kill the Christ Child.
According to the legend, Joseph and Mary paused on the flight in a grove of trees; the Holy Child ordered the trees to bend down so that Joseph could take fruit from them, and then ordered a spring of water to gush forth from the roots so that his parents could quench t