Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Joachim Patinir is considered to be the forerunner of landscape painting, a genre that began to evolve in the 16th century but which became fully independent in the following century. Little is known of his artistic training, and the first dated documentary reference is from 1515 when he is registered in the painters’ guild in Antwerp as an independent master. Similarities between his work and tha…