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Jan 15, 2021 · In July 2002, Rubens’s rediscovered painting Massacre of the Innocents, which depicts the Biblical scene of a violent massacre in Bethlehem, fetched a price of £49.5 million ($76.5 million)...
Jul 11, 2002 · Sotheby's London auctions Rubens painting Massacre of the Innocents to unnamed buyer for $76.7 million, third-highest price ever paid for painting at auction and highest ever for an old...
The work was sold at auction at Sotheby's, London on July 10, 2002, for £49.5 million (C$117 million) to Canadian businessman and art collector Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet.
- Oil on Canvas, Flemish Baroque
After the large-scale panel painting by Rubens (199 x 302 cm.) in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (inv. no. AP 572) 1 - his second treatment of the subject, painted in circa 1638.
The Massacre of the Innocents marks the beginning of an important artistic and commercial collaboration between Raphael and the young and talented Marcantonio, who had just arrived from his native Bologna in Rome.
Oct 28, 2022 · “Exploding with creative energy, he immediately embarked on what were to become three of his greatest masterpieces: the Samson and Delilah at the National Gallery in London, Massacre of the...
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The Massacre (or Slaughter) of the Innocents is a biblical story recounted in the Nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem. "Most New Testament scholars do not regard the stories of the ...
