The Flight into Egypt (Alte Pinakothek)
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The Flight into Egypt (Alte Pinakothek) is a renowned small-scale nocturnal landscape painting by Adam Elsheimer depicting the Holy Family’s biblical journey, celebrated for its pioneering use of naturalistic moonlight and starry sky.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Flight into Egypt (Alte Pinakothek) canonical | 1 |
| The Flight into Egypt (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4595039 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Flight into Egypt (Alte Pinakothek) Context triple: [Adam Elsheimer, work, The Flight into Egypt (Alte Pinakothek)]
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A.
Adoration of the Magi
The Adoration of the Magi is a biblical scene depicting the visit of the three wise men presenting gifts to the infant Jesus, a subject widely represented in Christian art.
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B.
Dresden Triptych
The Dresden Triptych is a small, richly detailed early Netherlandish altarpiece by Jan van Eyck, celebrated for its intricate realism and devotional imagery.
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C.
The Adoration of the Shepherds
The Adoration of the Shepherds is a late 16th-century religious painting by El Greco that depicts the Nativity with his characteristic elongated figures and dramatic, mystical lighting.
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D.
Annunciation mosaic
The Annunciation mosaic is a renowned Byzantine artwork at Daphni Monastery depicting the angel Gabriel announcing to the Virgin Mary that she will bear Christ, celebrated for its refined style and spiritual intensity.
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E.
The Geller Altarpiece
The Geller Altarpiece is a significant Renaissance religious painting, originally created as a multi-panel altarpiece and now housed in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Flight into Egypt (Alte Pinakothek) Target entity description: The Flight into Egypt (Alte Pinakothek) is a renowned small-scale nocturnal landscape painting by Adam Elsheimer depicting the Holy Family’s biblical journey, celebrated for its pioneering use of naturalistic moonlight and starry sky.
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A.
Adoration of the Magi
The Adoration of the Magi is a biblical scene depicting the visit of the three wise men presenting gifts to the infant Jesus, a subject widely represented in Christian art.
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B.
Dresden Triptych
The Dresden Triptych is a small, richly detailed early Netherlandish altarpiece by Jan van Eyck, celebrated for its intricate realism and devotional imagery.
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C.
The Adoration of the Shepherds
The Adoration of the Shepherds is a late 16th-century religious painting by El Greco that depicts the Nativity with his characteristic elongated figures and dramatic, mystical lighting.
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D.
Annunciation mosaic
The Annunciation mosaic is a renowned Byzantine artwork at Daphni Monastery depicting the angel Gabriel announcing to the Virgin Mary that she will bear Christ, celebrated for its refined style and spiritual intensity.
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E.
The Geller Altarpiece
The Geller Altarpiece is a significant Renaissance religious painting, originally created as a multi-panel altarpiece and now housed in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
landscape painting
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nocturne (night painting) ⓘ painting ⓘ religious painting ⓘ |
| appliesToPart | copper support ⓘ |
| collection | Alte Pinakothek collection ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| creator | Adam Elsheimer ⓘ |
| depicts |
Christ Child
ⓘ
linked to:
Child Jesus
Flight into Egypt ⓘ Holy Family ⓘ Saint Joseph ⓘ Virgin Mary ⓘ campfire ⓘ distant town ⓘ donkey ⓘ figures around a fire ⓘ landscape ⓘ moon ⓘ river ⓘ starry sky ⓘ |
| describedAs | small-scale nocturnal landscape painting ⓘ |
| dimension |
approximately 31 cm height
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approximately 41 cm width ⓘ |
| genre | Biblical art ⓘ |
| hasPart |
background with town and sky
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foreground with Holy Family ⓘ middle ground with figures by a fire ⓘ |
| inception | 1609 ⓘ |
| influenced |
Peter Paul Rubens
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Rembrandt ⓘ
linked to:
Rembrandt van Rijn
later Baroque landscape painters ⓘ |
| lighting |
firelight
ⓘ
moonlight ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Bavaria
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Germany ⓘ Munich ⓘ |
| location |
Alte Pinakothek
ⓘ
linked to:
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
|
| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement | Baroque ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed starry night sky
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innovative treatment of nocturnal landscape ⓘ pioneering naturalistic depiction of moonlight ⓘ |
| orientation | landscape format ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Elsheimer’s small copper nocturnes ⓘ |
| surface | copper plate ⓘ |
| theme |
divine protection during exile
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journey and refuge ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Flight into Egypt (Alte Pinakothek) Description of subject: The Flight into Egypt (Alte Pinakothek) is a renowned small-scale nocturnal landscape painting by Adam Elsheimer depicting the Holy Family’s biblical journey, celebrated for its pioneering use of naturalistic moonlight and starry sky.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Flight into Egypt (Alte Pinakothek)