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CARAVAGGIO: Rest on Flight to Egypt

🖼 Rest on Flight to Egypt, 1596-97
Oil on canvas
133.5 × 166.5 cm
Rome, Italy

Golden light bathes Mary and Joseph in tender repose, their figures arranged with theatrical intimacy against shadowed drapery. Caravaggio's revolutionary naturalism transformed religious narrative into lived experience, establishing his dramatic chiaroscuro as foundational to Baroque art.

Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Sebastian Schütze
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