The Flight into Egypt

Giovanni Francesco da Rimini's Flight into Egypt at the Louvre, painted around 1450, depicts the holy family's escape from Herod's persecution. The Flight into Egypt was both a narrative and a landscape subject, allowing painters to combine sacred history with natural scenery The Flight into Egypt was a subject that combined narrative tenderness with theological significance, showing the Holy Family's vulnerability and the violence they fled Egg tempera on panel was the dominant technique of th

The holy family traverses a landscape setting, with the donkey, the Virgin and Child, and the accompanying Joseph rendered in Giovanni Francesco's competent narrative style.