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The Flight into Egypt
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione1648
- Attribution
- Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione Italian, 1609-1664
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image: 29.5 × 20.6 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 29.8 × 20.6 cm (11 3/4 × 8 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Mary S. Adams Fund
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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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