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Reference number
P07772
Author
El Greco (Spanish)
Title
The Flight to Egypt
Chronology
Ca. 1567
Technique
Support
Measures
15,9 cm x 21,6 cm
School
Theme
Shown
Yes
Entrance
COMPRA
Procedence
Acquisition, 2000

This devotional painting shows the Holy Family's Flight to Egypt, pursued by Herod, as told in the New Testament (Matthew I, 13-15).

Both the technique and the composition derive from El Greco's period of training in Italy, with clear influences from Tintoretto and a treatment of the subject that is typical of Bassano.

Outstanding here is the interest the artist seems to take in the landscape, which is a characteristic totally outside his early training in Byzantine art.

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