Virtual Nativity - Angel tells Joseph to Flee

Relief of Angel warning Joseph to Flee

is located in West tympanum of Cathedral of Saint Lawrence, Trogir, Croatia, mid-13th century

Saint Joseph's Dream and the Flight into Egypt

is located in the Florence Baptistry, Italy (1266).

“After the wise men had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.’ Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went to Egypt,”
Matthew 2.13-14a

A set of mosaics portraying the life of Christ covers the internal dome of the Baptistery of Florence, Italy. It is one of the most important cycles of medieval Italian mosaics, created between 1225 and around 1330 using designs by major Florentine painters such as Cimabue, Coppo di Marcovaldo, Meliore and the Maestro della Maddalena (the Master of the Maddalena).

One mosaic shows an Angel telling Joseph in his dreams to take Mary and the baby Jesus to Egypt. It is attributed to the Master of the Maddalena, an unnamed Florentine artist active in the second half of the thirteenth century.

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