# Rest on the Flight into Egypt [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BARTOLOMEO, Fra]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Tempera and oil on canvas, 135 x 114 cm ## Commentary Rest on the Flight into Egypt c. 1500 Tempera and oil on canvas, 135 x 114 cm Palazzo Vescovile, Pienza Together with Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael Fra Bartolommeo created the high Renaissance style, characterized by an almost abstract expression of ease and accomplishment, formal quality and balance. The Rest on the Flight into Egypt is a fine example of that style with its conscious use of elementary vertical and horizontal lines and the simple scheme which governs the play of light. The Virgin seems to recall a <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/donatell/1\_early/6clouds.html'\)" HREF="/html/d/donatell/1\_early/6clouds.html">Virgin type favoured by Donatello</A> in shallow-carved reliefs. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation]() - [Christ Crowned with Thorns]() - [Christ with the Four Evangelists]() - [God the Father with Sts Catherine of Siena and Mary Magdalen]() - [Lamentation]() - [Last Judgment]() - [Madonna della Misericordia]() - [Mystic Marriage of St Catherine]() - [Noli Me Tangere]() - [Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola]() - [Prophet Isaiah]() - [The Adoration of the Christ Child \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()