Cleveland Museum of Art
The Flight into Egypt
Albrecht Dürer
- Date
- c. 1503–5
- Medium
- woodcut
- Culture
- Germany, early 16th Century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Although Dürer’s woodcut depicts a later event in the biblical narrative, the composition is similar to the scene from the Mirror of Holiness , " Mary and Joseph Travel to Bethlehem" CMA 2005.145.24.b —even to the inclusion of an ox. Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus fled Jerusalem for Egypt after Joseph was warned in a dream that Jesus’s life was in danger. The dense, dark forest through which the Holy Family travels seems to close threateningly around them. While the Indian artist envisioned a “pack beast” as a camel, Dürer invented a Middle Eastern landscape by incorporating a palm tree and other curious vegetation. The dense forest setting of the Flight into Egypt includes tropical trees and lizards.
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