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"Flight into Egypt"

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Througout the centuries, the biblical motif of the Flight into Egypt is repeated in art.  Frequently, Mary is depicted carrying the infant Jesus while seated aside on a mule lead by Joseph.

16th Century

1570_El Greco_Fllight into Egypt_c.1570_Prado
1525_Wolfgang Huber _1525-1530_Berlin_Gemaeldegalerie der Staatliche Museen zu Berlin_Page_2
1519_Jan de Beer_Flight into Egypt_1519-1527_Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland
1501_Jean Bourdichon_Hours of Frederic of Aragon_French_Tours_1501-1504_BNF_Latin 10532, fol. 158

15th Century

1485_Bernardino Butinone_1485_Chicago_Art Institute
15th Century Bibliothèque Stanislas Nancy MS 305
1483-1498 BN Latin1370
1480_Roundel wi Flight into Egypt_German_Upper Rhineland_1480-1490_Met_Cloisters Collection
1470_Cosimo Tura_c.1470s_Met
1451_Fra Angelico_1451-1452_Florence_Museo di San Marco
1450_Hans Striger The Elder_c.1450_Zell, Catholic Church of St. Bartholomew
Heures à l'usage de Paris. Datation: vers 1450. Enluminures attribuées au Maître de Dunois. 
1440_Masters of the Delft Grisailles_Book of Hours_Dutch_Delft_c.1440_KB135e23-060v
1435-1480 Latin 1156 A  
1420_Paolo Schiavo_late 1420s-early 1430s_Philadelphia, Museum of Art
1405_Lorenzo Monaco_1405-1410_Altenburg_Lindenau-Museum
1400_Conrad von Soest_c.1400_Paderborn, Episcopal Diocesan Museum and Cathedral Treasury
1400_15th Century_Cypriot_Cyprus_Church of St. Neophytos Monastery

14th Century

1395_Master of the Coronation of the Virgin_Book of Hours fragment_French_Paris_1395-1415_Morgan_m1068.006
Gebr. Van Limburg 1375 – 1416 illuminated manuscript (24 × 17 cm) — 1408-09
1370_One of 27 scenes from life of christ_altarpiece from Monastery of St. Clare, Cologne_c.1370-1380_Cologne_Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
1360 Regensburg, Germany. (Pierpont Morgan Museum and Library, New York). 
BL Yates Thompson 13 f. 95v 1325-1350
Egerton 2781 f. 14 bl 1325-1350
1315_Giotto_Flight_1315-1320_Assisi_San Francesco_Lower Church
1308_Duccio_Flight_1308-1311_Siena, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo
1304_Giotto_Flight_1304-1306_Padua, Arena-Scrovegni Chapel
1300_Central Leaf from a Polyptych w Flight into Egypt_French_14th Century_Met

13th Century

1275_Apochryphal stories of childhood_Liber de ortu b.mariae et infantia salvatoris_Italian_Rome_c.1275-1300_BNF_Latin 2688, fol. 4
1250_Psalter-Book of Hours_Belgian_Liege_c.1250-1300_KB_76g17-032v
1240_Flight_c.1240_Beauvais_Cathedreal

12th Century

1196_Anon_It_Apulia+1196-1205_San Vito dei Normanni_San Biagio
1190_Vita Christi_English_York_c.1190_Getty+MS 101, fol. 44v
1187_Bonannus_after 1187_Bronze_Pisa_Santa Maria Assunta
1145_Flight_originally from St.Denis_c.1145_Bryn Athyn, PA_Glencairn Museum
1120_Gislebertus_Flight_1120s_Autun_Cathedral of St. Lazare
1100_Wall Ptg_Swiss_12th Century_Zillis_Church of St. Martin
1100_Ivory_Italian_Salerno_end 11th-beginning 12th Centuries_

8th Century

700_Moone High Cross_8th Century_Moone, Co. Kildare