Massacre of the Innocents, 1612 by Peter Paul Rubens.
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The first version of Massacre of the Innocents by Rubens was made in 1612. Here is represented the second version made in 1638, which resembles some similarities to the original while brutalizes some aspects even more than the first one. The subject matter and the scene is elaborately described in the first version’s iconography. The second version is painted after 25 years of the first one.
The massacre of the Innocents is a repulsive theme. It can be handled in all the violence of the base bloodshed, and such is da Volterra’s representation. The theme can be also handled by distant restraint however and such is the picture of Pieter Brueghel the Younger. Pieter sets the scene in a Brabant village, made a view of the whole village and showed the soldiers kicking in the doors of.
Massacre of the Innocents synonyms, Massacre of the Innocents pronunciation, Massacre of the Innocents translation, English dictionary definition of Massacre of the Innocents. n the slaughter of all the young male children of Bethlehem at Herod's command in an attempt to destroy Jesus.
Formal Analysis of the Massacre of the Innocents (Francesco Caroto).
The Massacre of the Innocents is an episode of infanticide by the King of Judea, Herod the Great, that appears in the Gospel of Matthew 2:16-18. The author, traditionally Matthew the Evangelist, reports that Herod ordered the execution of all young male children in the village of Bethlehem, so as to avoid the loss of his throne to a newborn King of the Jews whose birth had been announced to.
The scene shows the violent biblical episode in which King Herod orders a massacre of all children under the age of two in an attempt to kill the newborn Christ, believing him to be a threat to his rule. This panel was once joined with the other painting by Mocetto in our collection, forming the left-hand part of the composition. A number of the poses here are copied directly from engravings.