The Flight into Egypt (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)

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The Flight into Egypt (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin) is a small but influential early 17th-century nocturnal landscape painting by Adam Elsheimer, celebrated for its poetic depiction of the Holy Family’s journey under a star-filled sky and its pioneering use of light and atmosphere.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf landscape painting
oil painting
painting
religious painting
basedOn Gospel of Matthew
catalogCode Gemäldegalerie inventory 1637A
linked to: Gemäldegalerie
collection Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
linked to: Gemäldegalerie
completionDate 1609
countryOfOrigin Holy Roman Empire
creator Adam Elsheimer
depicts Flight into Egypt
Holy Family
Infant Jesus
linked to: Child Jesus

Milky Way
Saint Joseph
Virgin Mary
campfire
donkey
figures resting
moonlight
night sky
river landscape
starry sky
wooded landscape
genre landscape art
religious art
hasPart foreground figures of the Holy Family
landscape background
height 31 cm
inception 1609
influenced Claude Lorrain
Peter Paul Rubens
Rembrandt
linked to: Rembrandt van Rijn

landscape painting
nocturnal landscape painting
languageOfWork none
locatedIn Berlin
Germany
location Gemäldegalerie
materialUsed copper support
oil paint
movement Baroque
notableFor astronomically accurate stars
innovative depiction of night sky
pioneering use of light and atmosphere
poetic mood
partOf collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
support copper plate
width 41 cm

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Adam Elsheimer work The Flight into Egypt (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)