"Rest on the Flight into Egypt" - Crossings Episode 01
Same biblical scene. Eight artists. Four and a half centuries. None of them knew about each other — but put side by side, they reveal a lot more about the artists than about the story itself.
In this pilot episode of Crossings, we trace "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" — the moment the Holy Family pauses on their journey to Egypt — across six museums and 450 years, from an anonymous 1460s manuscript painter to a Parisian satirist who found religion late in life.
Your co-hosts:
— Edward Monk (LinkedCulture founder)
— Eulalia Kane
— Shay Cavan
Heads up: Eulalia Kane and Shay Cavan are AI-generated avatar personas — fictional co-hosts built to bring some personality to what's otherwise pretty niche art-history content. Edward Monk is a real person, also presented here via AI avatar. The art history itself is real, fact-checked, and sourced directly from museum collections.
Featured works:
1. Unknown artist, "The Flight into Egypt," about 1460 — Getty Museum
2. Anonymous, "Rest on the Flight into Egypt," 1509 — Rijksmuseum
3. Jan Muller, "Rest on the Flight into Egypt," 1593 — The Metropolitan Museum of Art
4. Claude Lorrain, "Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt," 1645 — The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5. Elisabetta Sirani, "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt," 1656/69 — Art Institute of Chicago
6. Joseph Bayer, "Flight into Egypt," 1830 — Harvard Art Museums
7. Luc-Olivier Merson, "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (study)," c. 1879–80 — Cleveland Museum of Art
8. Jean Louis Forain, "Rest on the Flight into Egypt," 1909 — Cleveland Museum of Art
All works are in the public domain / CC0, sourced via each museum's open-access program.
LinkedCulture is a project exploring connections across museum collections worldwide — search, browse, and discover at linkedculture.org
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