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The Massacre of the Innocents, 1565-67 (oil on panel)

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ROC399156
Image title
The Massacre of the Innocents, 1565-67 (oil on panel)
Artist
Bruegel, Pieter the Elder (c.1525-69) / Flemish
Location
Royal Collection Trust
Medium
oil on panel
Date
1565 AD - 1567 AD (C16th AD)
Dimensions
109.2x158.1 cms
Image description

In St Matthew’s Gospel, hearing of the birth of Jesus, King Herod ordered that all children in Bethlehem under the age of two should be murdered. Bruegel set the story as a contemporary Flemish atrocity so that the soldiers wear the distinctive clothing of the Spanish army and their German mercenaries. When Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II acquired it, the slaughtered babies were painted over as bundles, food and animals so it appeared to be a more general scene of plunder.

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Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III, 2024 / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
16th century / art / Bible (scene) / horse / animal / Christianity / religion / colour / despair / feeling / church / child / woman / flemish art / slaughter / violence / birth / snow / weather / Netherlands / Europe / painting / village / soldier / oil painting / outside / mzpainting / Bruegel Pieter the Elder (1525-1569) / painter / artist / Massacre of the Innocents / Old Testament
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