Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Two Penitents in the Wilderness

  • Forensic psychiatry in Marco Ricci’s Flight into Egypt

    Stephen MartinThailandAidan JonesUnited Kingdom The Venetian artist Marco Ricci1 (1676–1730) painted Flight into Egypt after being in serious trouble. (Fig 1) We know it was created in England because it is on two individual yard-wide canvases, strip-glued together, and not woven in continental meters. Initialed “MR” in sepia on a cream rock in the foreground,…