Coastal Landscape with the Flight into Egypt

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Coastal Landscape with the Flight into Egypt is a late 16th-century landscape painting by Flemish artist Paulus Bril that combines an expansive, idealized seacoast setting with the biblical episode of the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf landscape painting
painting
artHistoricalSignificance example of early Flemish ideal landscape with biblical narrative
illustrates integration of religious subject into expansive landscape setting
colorPalette atmospheric blues and greens
compositionalFeature deep recession into space
high viewpoint
small-scale figures within vast landscape
countryOfOrigin Flanders NERFINISHED
creator Paulus Bril NERFINISHED
creatorNationality Flemish
depicts Flight into Egypt NERFINISHED
Holy Family NERFINISHED
Infant Jesus NERFINISHED
Saint Joseph NERFINISHED
Virgin Mary
coastal landscape
distant city
harbor
mountains
rocky cliffs
seacoast
ships
travel
genre biblical painting
religious painting
seascape
hasPart background sea and sky
foreground figures of the Holy Family
middle-ground coastal architecture
iconographicTheme Flight into Egypt NERFINISHED
Holy Family in landscape
inception late 16th century
movement Flemish Renaissance
Mannerism NERFINISHED
narrativeSource Gospel of Matthew NERFINISHED
New Testament NERFINISHED
period late 16th century
style classical landscape
idealized landscape
subjectHeading Bible—New Testament—Flight into Egypt
Holy Family in art
Landscapes in art
Seascapes in art

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Paulus Bril notableWork Coastal Landscape with the Flight into Egypt