To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice.
~ Andre Malraux ~
Flight into Egypt
by
Henry Ossawa Tanner
This painting captures the isolation and sorrow, I would imagine Mary and Joseph must have felt, as they fled their home, escaping Herod’s decree, which sought to kill the baby Jesus.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displaced.
~ William Blake ~
