The Flight into Egypt
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The Flight into Egypt by Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) (c. 1503–5). Dudley P. Allen Fund Rights: CC0. https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.99.14

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Although Dürer’s woodcut depicts a later event in the biblical narrative, the composition is similar to the scene from the Mirror of Holiness , " Mary and Joseph Travel to Bethlehem" CMA 2005.145.24.b —even to the inclusion of an ox. Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus fled Jerusalem for Egypt after Joseph was warned in a dream that Jesus’s life was in danger. The dense, dark forest through which the Holy Family travels seems to close threateningly around them. While the Indian artist envisioned a “pack beast” as a camel, Dürer invented a Middle Eastern landscape by incorporating a palm tree and other curious vegetation.

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A monochrome woodcut depicts two figures on horseback traversing a dark, overgrown forest path.

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