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Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
The Flight into Egypt
Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.

The Flight into Egypt

Artist (South Netherlandish, ca. 1485 - 1540/41)
Dateca.1520
Object number58.0045
Mediumoil on panel
Dimensions25 7/16 × 17 1/2 in. (64.6 × 44.5 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
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DescriptionPainted with almost photographic precision, this fantastic landscape is crammed with symbolic references to Christ’s divinity. The broken bronze statue alludes to the legend in which Christ, upon entering Egypt, caused pagan idols to collapse to the ground. A conspicuously placed tree foreshadows Christ’s Crucifixion and suggests how the dead wood of the Cross would be transformed into the tree of eternal life through his sacrifice. Even the beautiful pool in the right foreground recalls the cleansing waters of baptism.
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Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
Matías Arteaga y Alfaro
ca. 1660 -1700
Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
Francisco de Zurbarán
ca. 1630
Photography by: Jaime Navarro, Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
Luis de Morales
ca. 1566
Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
Anthony van Dyck
ca. 1620
Photography by: Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
Bartholomeus Van Der Helst
1653
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