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{{Short description|Painting by Paris Bordone}}
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| title              = The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
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| other_title_1      = The Rest on the Return from the Flight into Egypt
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| wikidata           = Q47367444
| image              = Rest during the Flight to Egypt-Paris Bordon mg 9985.jpg
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| artist             = [[Paris Bordone]]
| year               =  circa 1530
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| medium             = [[oil painting]] on [[canvas]]
| movement           = [[Italian Renaissance painting|Italian Renaissance]]<br>[[Venetian painting]]<br>[[Cinquecento]]<br>[[religious art]]
| subject            = [[Rest on the Flight into Egypt]]
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| dimensions_ref     = <ref name="Roy">{{cite book |last1=Roy |first1=Alain |title=De Giotto à Goya. Peintures italiennes et espagnoles du musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg |date=June 2017 |publisher=Musées de la ville de Strasbourg |isbn=978-2-35125-151-5 |pages=128–130}}</ref>
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| museum             = [[Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg|Musée des Beaux-Arts]]
| city               = [[Strasbourg]]
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| accession          = 1890
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'''''The Rest on the Flight into Egypt''''', also called '''''The Rest on the Return from the Flight into Egypt''''' is a circa 1530 [[oil painting]] by the [[Venice|Venetian]] [[Renaissance art|Renaissance painter]] [[Paris Bordone]]. It is on display in the [[Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg|Musée des Beaux-Arts]] of [[Strasbourg]], France. Its inventory number is 176.<ref name="Jacquot">{{cite book |last1=Jacquot |first1=Dominique |title=Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Cinq siècles de peinture |date=2006 |publisher=Musées de Strasbourg |location=Strasbourg |isbn=2-901833-78-0 |pages=76–77}}</ref>
== History ==
The work was painted around 1530 as an [[altarpiece]] for the [[Benedictines|Benedictine church]] ''Santa Maria della Misericordia'' of [[Noale]] (today the [[parish church]] ''Chiesa dell'Assunta''). It was bought in [[London]] in 1890 by [[Wilhelm von Bode]], from the collection of [[Charles Fairfax Murray]]. The painting was restored in 1965.<ref name="Roy"/>
== Description ==
The painting depicts a sleeping [[Saint Joseph]], the babies [[Jesus]] and [[John the Baptist]] playing with a [[Lamb of God|lamb]], and [[Mary, mother of Jesus|Mary]], being approached from the right by an older woman with distinctly "[[Romani people|gypsy]]" features. Some art historians have identified her as [[Elizabeth (biblical figure)|Saint Elisabeth]], which would account for the presence of John the Baptist and the pictured moment being on the return from Egypt instead of [[Flight into Egypt|on the way there]]. It does not, however, explain why Mary would, in that case, have the bewildered gaze and gesture with which Bordone represented her, nor what the solemn and distant attitude of "Elisabeth" would stand for.<br>Another theory states that this woman is a gypsy [[Fortune-telling|fortune-teller]], announcing the future fate of both boys. Gypsies (''Zingari'') were a recurring subject in Venetian painting, influenced by [[Giorgione]]'s famous ''[[The Tempest (Giorgione)|The Tempest]]''. A 2015 interpretation of the painting claims that it is inspired by the ''[[Syriac Infancy Gospel]]'', in which Mary, on her way to Egypt, would frequently be approached by sick people in search of a miraculous healing, which she would always grant them. In that case, the "Gypsy" would be an old [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] showing facial symptoms of the [[Plague (disease)|plague]], a disease of which Paris Bordone was afraid as well.<ref name="Jacquot"/><ref name="Roy"/>
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