Flight into Egypt

==In music==
The oratorio ''[[L'enfance du Christ]]'' (1854) by French composer [[Hector Berlioz]] relates the events from Herod's dream and his meeting with the Magi through the angels' warning and the flight into Egypt until the Holy Family arrive at Sais.

Two [[Choral works by Max Bruch|choral works]] by the German composer [[Max Bruch]] take the flight into Egypt as their theme - ''The Flight of the Holy Family'' (1863)<ref>{{cite web |title=Max Bruch |url=http://www.myorchestra.net/composer/max-bruch/ |website=myorchestra.net |publisher=MyOrchestra |access-date=6 December 2022}}</ref> and ''The Flight into Egypt'' (1871).<ref name="MM">{{cite web |last1=Prieser |first1=Marcus |title=Flight of the Holy Family Op. 20 for choir and orchestra/ Flight into Egypt Op. 31, 1 for soprano, choir and orchestra |url=https://repertoire-explorer.musikmph.de/en/product/bruch-max-23/ |website=repertoire-explorer.musikmph.de |publisher=Musikproduktion Hoeflich |access-date=8 December 2022}}</ref>

The German composer [[:de:Valentin Ruckebier|Valentin Ruckebier]] wrote an opera called ''The Flight To Egypt'' which was produced and performed in 2021/22 at [[Teatro Comunale Modena]], [[Linz State Theatre]] and [[Serbian National Theatre]] Novi Sad.<ref>{{Cite web|title=CrossOpera: otherness, fear and discovery|url=https://www.crossopera.eu/|access-date=2022-01-21|website=CrossOpera|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Landestheater Linz detail|url=https://www.landestheater-linz.at/EN/stuecke/detail?EventSetID=3545&ref=3545126211031&spielzeit=2021/22|access-date=2022-01-21|website=www.landestheater-linz.at}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=CrossOpera: Otherness, fear and discovery, Cinque {{!}} Landestheater Linz|url=https://www.operabase.com/productions/crossopera-otherness-fear-and-discovery-130984/de|access-date=2022-01-21|website=Operabase|language=de}}</ref>


[[Image:Die Flucht nach Aegypten (Spitzweg).jpg|thumb|''Die Flucht nach Ägypten'' by [[Carl Spitzweg]], 1875–1879]]
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File:Bochum Stiepel - Stiepeler Dorfkirche 18 ies.jpg|Simple medieval wall painting in a German church in [[Stiepel|Bochum-Stiepel]]
Image:Melchior Broederlam 003.jpg|''[[Presentation at the Temple]]'' and Flight, with legends of the idol and spring, [[Melchior Broederlam]], [[Burgundy (region)|Burgundy]], c. 1400
Image:Folio 57r - The Flight into Egypt.jpg|The miracles of the palm tree and corn on the Flight, from a [[book of hours]], ca. 1400
Image:Joachim Patinir - Landscape with the Flight into Egypt.jpg|[[Joachim Patinir]], 1510s (?), the inventor of the [[world landscape]], painted several versions of the subject. At right the [[miracle of the corn]], at top left the falling idol
Image:Adam Elsheimer - Die Flucht nach Ägypten (Alte Pinakothek) 2.jpg|''[[The Flight into Egypt (Elsheimer)|The Flight into Egypt]]'', [[Adam Elsheimer]], c. 1605, as a night scene
File:Rubens, Peter Paul - Flight into Egypt - 1614.jpg|[[Rubens]], 1614
File:Asselijn Jan - Flight into Egypt.jpg|[[Jan Asselyn]], c. 1640
Image:Philipp Otto Runge 004.jpg|Romantic ''Rest on the Flight'' by [[Philipp Otto Runge]], 1806
Image:Edwin Longsden Long - Anno Domini.jpg|British [[orientalism|Orientalist]] artist [[Edwin Long]], ''Anno Domini'', 1883, shows the arrival in Egypt; the idols seem intact.
File:Flight into Egypt (12 Sinai).jpg|[[Saint Catherine's Monastery]], 12th century
File:Vitrail Notre-Dame de Paris 191208 04 Fuite en Egypte.jpg|''The Flight into Egypt'', stained glass in a choir chapel, [[Notre Dame de Paris]] cathedral, [[Paris]], [[France]]
File:Merson Rest on the Flight into Egypt.jpg|''Rest on the Flight into Egypt'' by [[Luc-Olivier Merson]], 1879, [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]]
NIND MuseeL-fuite ISO200.jpg|Statue by Legs F. van Hamme, 17th century
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