Domenichino 1620
Canvas,65 x 83 1/2''(165 x 212 cm).Acquired for the collection of Louis XIV in 1668 Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (mk05) 1581-1641
Italian
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Italian painter and draughtsman. On the basis of his frescoes and altarpieces he became established as the most influential exponent of the 17th-century classical style. Through his critical analysis of the art of Raphael and Annibale Carracci he was influential in the creation of a modern canon of the ancients; and he was perhaps the most complete example of a 17th-century artist struggling to reconcile tradition with the demand for spectacle.
