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The Flight into Egypt
Bernardino Butinone (Italian, c. 1450-before 1510)LinkedCulture matchlcp-4a3d0182da54
- Date
- c. 1485
- Medium
- Tempera on panel
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 16134
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This panel and it’s companion, The Descent from the Cross , were originally part of a series of scenes from the life of Jesus that constitute Bernardino Butinone’s best-known works. The first painting depicts the Holy Family fleeing to Egypt as part of Mary and Joseph’s attempt to protect the newborn Jesus from being murdered by King Herod, who viewed the divine child as a threat to his power. The second painting shows Jesus’s body being lowered from the cross into the arms of his grieving mother and followers. Born in Treviglio in Lombardy in Northern Italy, Butinone worked primarily for patrons in and around Milan. His distinctive, eccentric style is characterized by expressive figures and highly imaginative descriptions of landscape settings.
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Provenance
- Count de Malherbe, Paris, by 1921 [Kleinberger stock card, Department of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art]; sold to Kleinberger, Paris and New York, 1921 [according to Kleinberger stock card cited above]; sold by Kleinberger to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1927; on loan to the Art Institute from 1927; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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Rest on Flight into EgyptThese objects all depict the biblical scene of the Holy Family resting during their flight into Egypt, a popular subject in Christian art across different European artistic traditions and media.
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