Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Saint Francis
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Saint Francis | |
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Artist | Correggio |
Year | c. 1520 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 123.5 cm × 106.5 cm (48.6 in × 41.9 in) |
Location | Uffizi, Florence |
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Saint Francis is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Correggio, dated to c. 1520 and now in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence. The Rest on the Flight into Egypt was a popular subject in art.
History
The painting, once attributed to Federico Barocci,[1] is now unanimously assigned to Correggio. It has been linked to the testament of jurist Francesco Munari who, in 1520, left money to the church of San Francesco in the town of Correggio for the decoration of the Immaculate Conception Chapel, where he wanted to be buried.[2]
The work remained in the church until 1638, when duke Francesco I d'Este moved his collections to Modena and replaced it with a copy by Jean Boulanger. In 1649 it was acquired by Ferdinando II de' Medici, in exchange for the Sacrifice of Isaac by Andrea del Sarto, and was thenceforth located at the Uffizi.
Description
The painting is inspired to an episode of Jesus' childhood narrated in the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew. During their flight from Egypt, the Holy Family stopped to rest under a palm tree. The latter bent itself to offer them its fruit and water appeared from its roots. Mary is portrayed in the middle, with the child on her knees. Joseph, on the left, is giving fruits to Jesus. On the right is Saint Francis of Assisi, present in the scene as a homage to the donor (who was eponymous of the saint), or the church.
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- Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Quirinus (c. 1505)
- Barrymore Madonna (1508–1510)
- Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist (Pavia, c. 1510; attributed)
- Madonna and Child with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist (1510)
- Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist (Mantua, 1511)
- Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist (1513–1514)
- Madonna and Child with St Francis (1514–1515)
- The Holy Family with Saint Jerome (c. 1515)
- Madonna and Child with Two Musician Angels (1515–16)
- La Zingarella (1516–17)
- Campori Madonna (1517–18)
- Bolognini Madonna (1514–1519)
- Albinea Madonna (1517–1519)
- Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist (Madrid, Orléans) (1518)
- Casalmaggiore Madonna (c. 1522)
- Madonna of the Stairs (c. 1522–23)
- San Sebastiano Madonna (1524)
- Nursing Madonna with an Angel (c. 1524)
- Madonna of the Basket (1525)
- Adoration of the Christ Child (1526)
- Madonna della Scodella (1528)
- Madonna of St. Jerome (1528)
- Madonna and Child with St. George (1530)
- Judith and Her Maidservant (1510)
- Four Saints (1514)
- David Before the Ark of the Covenant (c. 1515)
- Adoration of the Magi (1515–1518)
- Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Saint Francis (1520)
- Head of Christ (1521)
- Agony in the Garden (1524)
- Noli me tangere (1524)
- Lamentation (1524)
- Martyrdom of Four Saints (1524)
- Ecce Homo (c. 1526)
- Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine :
- Washington c. 1510)
- (Detroit c. 1512)
- (Naples c. 1520)
- (Paris c. 1527
- Saint Joseph and a Devotee (1529)
- Nativity (1529–1530)
- Saint Catherine Reading (c. 1530)
- Magdalen in the Desert (Mary Magdalene Reading)
- Mantegna funerary chapel (1507)
- Camera di San Paolo (1520)
- Vision of St. John on Patmos (1520–1522)
- Annunciation (1525)
- Assumption of the Virgin (1526–1530)
- Venus with Mercury and Cupid (1525)
- Venus and Cupid with a Satyr (1528)
- Jupiter and Io (1530)
- Leda and the Swan (1530–1531)
- Danaë (1531)
- Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle (1531–1532)
- Portrait of a Lady (c. 1520)
- Portrait of a Man with a Book (1522)
- Saint Anthony Abbot (1518)
- Saint John Fleeing Christ's Arrest (c. 1522) (anonymous copy)
- Allegory of Virtue (1531)
- Allegory of Vice (1531)
- Pomponio Allegri (son)