Landscape with Flight into Egypt. Landscape with the Flight into Egypt is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci.
Dating from c. 1604, it remains in the palace for which it was painted in Rome as part of the collection of the Galleria Doria Pamphilj. The painting, depicting the biblical New Testament event of the Flight into Egypt, was commissioned in 1603 by Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini for the family chapel in his palace in Rome, later known as Palazzo Doria Pamphilj.
The commission includes six paintings in six lunettes, which were executed by Carracci and his pupils. The work is frequently regarded as a key work in Baroque landscape painting and is the most celebrated example of the new landscape style Carracci developed in Rome of carefully constructed landscape panoramas, according to Rudolf Wittkower.
For John Rupert Martin it is the archetypal classical landscape, later to be emulated with variations by Domenichino, Poussin and Claude. the small scale of the figures in relation to the spacious natural setting at once establishes a new priority in which landscape takes first place and history second; though insofar as it is new, that is for Italian painting, as such works had been common in Northern painting since Joachim Patinir began to use the same reversal of scale almost a century before.
The journey of the Holy Family is echoed by other moving elements including the sheep, bird
Dating from c. 1604, it remains in the palace for which it was painted in Rome as part of the collection of the Galleria Doria Pamphilj. The painting, depicting the biblical New Testament event of the Flight into Egypt, was commissioned in 1603 by Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini for the family chapel in his palace in Rome, later known as Palazzo Doria Pamphilj.
The commission includes six paintings in six lunettes, which were executed by Carracci and his pupils. The work is frequently regarded as a key work in Baroque landscape painting and is the most celebrated example of the new landscape style Carracci developed in Rome of carefully constructed landscape panoramas, according to Rudolf Wittkower.
For John Rupert Martin it is the archetypal classical landscape, later to be emulated with variations by Domenichino, Poussin and Claude. the small scale of the figures in relation to the spacious natural setting at once establishes a new priority in which landscape takes first place and history second; though insofar as it is new, that is for Italian painting, as such works had been common in Northern painting since Joachim Patinir began to use the same reversal of scale almost a century before.
The journey of the Holy Family is echoed by other moving elements including the sheep, bird
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