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The Massacre of the Innocents
When Herod, the King of Judea, learned that a child destined to become ‘King of the Jews’ would be born in Bethlehem, he ordered the slaughter of all boys under the age of two. The painter portrayed the massacre as a gruesome nightmare. Horror follows upon horror: at lower left a soldier slits a child’s throat, while above them a woman gouges out a soldier’s eyes.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/73B63
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1590
- 1590
Place-Time
- fourth quarter 16th century
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.8164
- SK-A-128
Extent
- height 245 cm
- width 358 cm
- height 269 cm
- width 388 cm
- thickness 12 cm
Format
- canvas
- oil paint (paint)
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1590
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:13:28.822Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:17.200Z