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The Flight into Egypt (Lorrain)

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Claude depicted the Flight into Egypt many times, especially in his earlier works. He never painted anything but landscapes, but he created those with such skill that he elevated the genre to new heights. His poetic vision of nature was so highly regarded by his wealthy seventeenth-century patrons
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in order to make the sketches that would allow him to capture the campagna's golden sunlight and atmospheric effects. The Holy Family may be the subject, but the real focus is on light, not narrative. Claude's idealized, Acadian landscape is a study of light and atmosphere in which the religious
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was on display at the IMA for decades before it was officially donated, in 2003. At that point, it became a part of the permanent collection and was given the accession number 2003.171. It currently hangs in the William L. and Jane H. Fortune Gallery.
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like this made Claude famous by combining a rustic vocabulary of shepherds and towering trees with realistic portrayals of the
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that it helped establish landscape painting as a genre in its own right, just like religious and historical paintings.
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They Waz Nice White Folks While They Lasted (Sez One Gal to Another)
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Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. Mary Magdalene
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Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia
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Index


Claude Lorrain
Oil painting
canvas
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Indianapolis
oil painting
French
Claude Lorrain
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Indianapolis
Indiana
Flight into Egypt
Holy Family
Egypt
Herod's
Joseph
Mary
Jesus
Bethlehem
Landscapes
Roman
malaria
Village Fête
The Flight into Egypt (Poussin painting)
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Museum of Art
ISBN
0936260777

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