Number 1, 2016

The biblical story of the Flight into Egypt recounts how Joseph took Jesus and Mary to Egypt after an angel warned him in a dream that Herod was planning to kill the Christ Child (Gospel of Matthew 2:13-15). Glencairn’s 12th-century panel of stained glass depicting this event, from the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, may be the Museum’s most famous work of art—but this was not always the case.