Why it matters
The Holy Family travels through a broad landscape in a lunette painted for Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini's family chapel. It is regarded as a key work of Baroque landscape painting and the most celebrated example of Carracci's new landscape style.
Did you know?
- It dates from around 1604.
- It was commissioned in 1603.
- It remains in the palace for which it was painted, now Palazzo Doria Pamphilj.
Based on the Wikipedia article Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (Carracci) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
