Art Institute of Chicago
The Flight into Egypt
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
- Date
- 1648
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Executed during Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione's second visit to Rome, this classical composition illustrates the Biblical story in which the infant Christ commanded a palm tree to bow down so that the Virgin might pick its fruit during the Holy Family's flight into Egypt to escape Herod's soldiers.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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