The Flight into Egypt  1480

An artist of incomparable fantasy and expressive power, Tura was court painter to the dukes of Ferrara. This roundel belongs to a series of three showing the early life of Christ. The series may come from the base (predella) of an altarpiece and has been associated with Tura’s masterpiece, the Roverella Altarpiece, the central panel of which is in the National Gallery, Lon...