Flight into Egypt

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Flight into Egypt

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Christology
The Middle Ages through the 19th century
Pieter Bruegel’s Flight into Egypt (1563), and even more so his complex The Way to Calvary (1564), are illustrative of the late medieval and early modern tendency to depict scenes from the life of Jesus in a contemporary idiom. In the latter painting, the center of the…
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Pieter Bruegel’s Flight into Egypt (1563), and even more so his complex The Way to Calvary (1564), are illustrative of the late medieval and early modern tendency to depict scenes from the life of Jesus in a contemporary idiom. In the latter painting, the center of the…
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