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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

The Flight into Egypt

1648
Etching on paper
29.5 × 20.6 cm (11.6 × 8.1 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

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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