Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Caravaggio)

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Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Italian: Riposo durante la fuga in Egitto
Artist	Caravaggio
Year	c. 1597
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	135.5 cm × 166.5 cm (53.3 in × 65.6 in)
Location	Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome

Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c. 1597 creation) is a painting by the

The scene is based not on any incident in the Bible itself, but on a body of tales or legends that had grown up in the early Middle Ages around the Bible story of the Holy Family fleeing into Egypt for refuge on being warned that Herod the Great was seeking to kill the Christ Child. According to the legend, Joseph and Mary paused on the flight in a grove of trees; the Holy Child ordered the trees to bend down so that Joseph could take fruit from them, and then ordered a spring of water to gush forth from the roots so that his parents could quench their thirst. This basic story acquired many extra details during the centuries.

Caravaggio shows Mary asleep with the infant Jesus, while Joseph holds a manuscript for an angel who is playing a hymn to Mary on the viol.

Date

The date of the painting is disputed. According to Caravaggio's contemporary

However, there are problems with accepting Mancini's statement. To begin, none of these three works were listed in Petragnani's inventory of 1600, although it is possible that they could have been painted for another patron. More seriously, the painting has an obvious and direct compositional source in Annibale Carracci's Judgement of Hercules, which was completed early in 1596 and widely admired: the pose of Caravaggio's angel, for example, is closely based on that of Carracci's figure of Vice.^{[citation needed]}

While John Gash (2003) accepts Mancini's testimony, others, including

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Style

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This was the first large-scale work done by Caravaggio, and is compositionally more ambitious and more successful than