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Keywords: Master of the Mansi Magdalen - Rest on the Flight into Egypt - Walters 37389.jpg Simple images of the Virgin and Child were often found in private homes as an inspiration to prayer and meditation The Gospels tell us little of the Holy Family's flight into Egypt to escape the wrath of Herod though later legends describe the family stopping to rest and take nourishment While the Virgin sits humbly on the ground and nurses her child she is regally dressed and angels hold a crown above her head in anticipation of her future role as Queen of Heaven The columbines flowering in the foreground an inn in the middle distance and the wilderness through which the family has fled depicted by overlapping hills receding to snowy peaks reflect the new interest in the natural world among Antwerp painters at this time between 1515 1525 Early Modern oil on panel cm 40 28 5 accession number 37 389 238 Henry Walters Baltimore before 1909 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters before 1909 Undercover Stories in Art The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1980 Salute to Belgium place of origin Antwerp Belgium Walters Art Museum license 2D DEFAULTSORT Master of the Mansi Magdalen Madonna and Child Walters Art Gallery Master of the Mansi Magdalen Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Salute to Belgium 16th-century paintings of Madonna and Child Paintings of Madonna lactans
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