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The Massacre of the Innocents is the subject of two paintings by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the episode of the biblical Massacre of the Innocents of Bethlehem, as related in the Gospel of Matthew (2:13–18).
- Oil on Canvas, Flemish Baroque
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One of the most famous and valuable paintings in the AGO Collection, The Massacre of the Innocents underscores Rubens’s achievement as a painter and provides powerful insight into the mindset of the citizens of Antwerp in 1610, giving expression to their collective trauma instigated by religious warfare. Visitors will see this work in a new ...
Nov 30, 2018 · The exhibition will mark the return of the masterpiece The Massacre of the Innocents – a jewel from the AGO Collection, currently on loan to the Rubens House in Antwerp, Belgium where it was originally painted.
Oct 12, 2019 · The inspiration for the exhibition, as well as its centrepiece, is Rubens's important masterpiece: The Massacre of the Innocents, gifted to the AGO by Canadian collector Kenneth Thomson.
Oct 14, 2019 · And finally The Massacre of the Innocents delights in its rendering of male musculature and female flesh even as it forces the images of dead babies with bluing skin and blood-spattered faces...
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. [2] "
