03 — ARTWORK
The Flight into Egypt
- MEDIUM
- Oil on panel, 47 x 34 cm
- TYPE
- Religious
PALETTE
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- FILE
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COMMENTARY
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The landscape in this painting is heavily indebted to the early easelStand on which a painting is supported while the artist works on it. The oldest representation of an easel is on an Egyptian relief of the Old Kingdom (c. 2600-2150 BC). Renaissance illustrations of the artist at work show all kinds of contrivances, the commonest being the three-legged easel with pegs, such as we still use today. Light folding easels were not made until the 18th and 19th centuries, when painters took to working out of doors. The studio easel, a 19th-century invention, is a heavy piece of furniture, which runs on castors or wheels, and served to impress the c1ients of portrait painters. Oil painters need an easel which will support the canvas almost vertically or tip it slightly forward to prevent reflection from the wet paint, whereas the watercolourist must be able to lay his paper nearly flat so that the wet paint will not run down. The term 'easel-painting' is applied to any picture small enough to have been painted on a standard easel. paintings of Bril, both in its composition, which is framed by a large tree on the right, and in its unnatural, strong contrasts of light and shade on the vegetation.
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title = {The Flight into Egypt by CESARI, Giuseppe},
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date = {2026-09-13},
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