File:Caravaggio FlightIntoEgypt detail Joseph and angel.jpg

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Caravaggio: Rest on the Flight into Egypt

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Alternative names	Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Birth name: Michelangelo Merisi Italiano: Michelangelo Merisi, detto il Caravaggio
Description	Italian painter
Date of birth/death	29 September 1571	18 July 1610 / 1610
Location of birth/death	Milan	Porto Ercole
Work period	1593 - 1610
Work location	Rome, Naples, Malta, Sicily
Authority file	: Q42207 VIAF: 87679282 ISNI: 0000000121028836 ULAN: 500115312 LCCN: n50000558 NLA: 35025773 WorldCat

Title

The Rest on The Flight into Egypt

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religious art

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Date

between 1596 and 1597

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

width: 48 cm (18.8 in) (of detail)

Collection

Galleria Doria Pamphilj

	Native name	Galleria Doria Pamphilj
	Location	Rome, Italy
	Coordinates	41° 53′ 51.61″ N, 12° 28′ 52.12″ E
	Website	http://www.dopart.it/roma/
	Authority file	: Q1203458 VIAF: 152281785 ISNI: 0000000123537394 LCCN: n83197856 GND: 10007120-X SUDOC: 027685977 WorldCat

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GND: 4754094-1

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Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Caravaggio)

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Usage on fr.wikipedia.org
- Peinture avec partition musicale
Usage on id.wikipedia.org
- Jejak pelarian ke Mesir (Caravaggio)
Usage on pl.wikipedia.org
- Odpoczynek w czasie ucieczki do Egiptu (obraz Caravaggia)
Usage on pt.wikipedia.org
- Descanso na Fuga para o Egito (Caravaggio)
Usage on sl.wikipedia.org
- Počitek na begu v Egipt
Usage on th.wikipedia.org
- พักระหว่างหนีไปอียิปต์ (คาราวัจโจ)

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CARAVAGGIO

(b. 1571, Caravaggio, d. 1610, Porto Ercole)

Rest on Flight to Egypt (detail) 1596-97 Oil on canvas, width of detail: 48 cm Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome

The composition fans out from an exquisite angel who is playing music. Joseph is wearing clothes of earth-color and is holding a book of music, from which the angel is playing a violin solo, whilst the donkey's large eyes peeps out from under the brown foliage.

The Angel is playing a motet in honour of the Madonna, Quam pulchra es..., composed by Noël Bauldewijn to the words of the Song of Songs (7,7) with the dialogue between Groom and Bride (understood in the painting not so much as Joseph and Mary, but as Jesus Christ and the Madonna, i.e. the church): "How fair and pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes." In the Gospel according to the pseudo-Matthew (20,1), significantly dedicated to the Flight into Egypt, the same metaphorical image of the palm tree laden with fruit returns.

The principal motif of Caravaggio's Flight into Egypt is that of the music that can be heard on earth, considered by the Fathers of the Church to be a copy of music in heaven. The intermediary between these two worlds is the invisible sound, which in art takes the form of an Angel playing music, a divine messenger that stands at the border between material and spiritual reality. God communicates with men through Angels, who are his go-betweens: "[it is the] Angel who spoke to me," says Zachariah and for Ezekiel, the Angel is "the man dressed in linen," just as Caravaggio depicts him.

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Author: CARAVAGGIO Title: Rest on Flight to Egypt (detail) Time-line: 1551-1600 School: Italian Form: painting

Type: religious

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