Fra Bartolommeo’s The Rest on the Flight into Egypt with John the Baptist was painted during the High Renaissance era in Florence once the artist returned home from Venice. This piece of artwork “combines a fresh, luminous approach to landscape with the monumentality and balance of Florentine figural composition” (Gribbon 829). Indeed, many art historians consider Bartolommeo’s painting as a prototype for subsequent portrayals of the Holy Family as well as John the Baptist. Bartolommeo’s paintings mirror the artistic trends in Florentine art, which transformed from meticulously detailed realism during the fifteenth century to more idealized Continue reading...