The Flight into Egypt is recounted in the Gospel of Saint Matthew. Joseph flees with Mary and the infant Jesus to Egypt because King Herod is seeking them.
Joseph wears a ribbed bonnet and carries a bundle on his shoulder. He leads a mount, probably a donkey. On his back, the Virgin, sitting astride with her child, appears majestically, resembling a Virgin and Child on a throne.
The Flight into Egypt is also depicted on a historiated capital from the Saint-Lazare Cathedral of Autun, sculpted between 1125 and 1140.
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