Rest on the way to Egypt by Lucas Cranach

His masterpiece, the pearl of his work – the painting “Rest on the way to Egypt” – Lucas Cranach the Elder wrote in Vienna in 1504, as a young artist. Jewelry pattern, radiant color, sonorous blue of the sky, an emerald of greenery, a new sense of nature of this and other landscape paintings of Lucas Cranach make the artist a number of outstanding masters of the Northern Renaissance.

Searches in the field of form lead the artist to happy finds, which abound in this work. Maria seems to be in a wide sink formed by her clothes; Through the whole picture stretches a line of Christ-facing figures of angels whose restless movements are balanced by the pose of Joseph leaning against the pine.