Flight into Egypt Italian Tapestry

Flight into Egypt Italian Tapestry

Flight into Egypt is an Italian jacquard wall tapestry. The original artwork comes from a painting of the same name completed in 1310s by Italian painter Giotto di Bondone (1266 – 1337), known as Giotto. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. Giotto is credited as making the decisive break with the prevalent Byzantine style and as initiating "the great art of painting as we know it today, introducing the technique of drawing accurately from life, which had been neglected for more than two hundred years.