Massacre of the Innocents Pieter Brueghel The Elder (1525-1569)
Pieter Brueghel The Elder – Massacre of the Innocents
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Painter: Pieter Brueghel The Elder
Location: The Royal Collection of the United Kingdom, London.
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The painter Bruegel is the last of the Dutch Renaissance. In his late medieval-type works, he demonstrated the stupidity and weakness of man. Peter Bruegel created the following works in 1566: "The Sermon of John the Baptist," "The Census," and "The Slaughter of the Infants." In these works, for the first time, the theme of the life of the common people in a universal social plane was touched upon. The pictures fascinate by the awareness of the authenticity of the events that occur, and the story from the Gospels, serves only as a cover.
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Description of Peter Brueghel’s painting The Massacre of the Innocents
The painter Bruegel is the last of the Dutch Renaissance. In his late medieval-type works, he demonstrated the stupidity and weakness of man.
Peter Bruegel created the following works in 1566: "The Sermon of John the Baptist," "The Census," and "The Slaughter of the Infants." In these works, for the first time, the theme of the life of the common people in a universal social plane was touched upon.
The pictures fascinate by the awareness of the authenticity of the events that occur, and the story from the Gospels, serves only as a cover. The work "The Massacre of the Innocents" describes a fragment of a historically significant event from the New Testament, the Bethlehem story, related to the birth of Jesus. This event is a manifestation of the bloody despotism of King Herod the Great, who occupies the royal throne illegally. The artwork "The Massacre of the Infants" shows an attack by Spanish soldiers on a Dutch settlement. The soldiers break into the buildings and take the children away from their mothers.
The author of the work most likely witnessed the atrocities of the troops in the supposedly heretical settlements. This is why King Herod’s soldiers are in Spanish military uniform and Bethlehem is represented as a Flemish village. In the earliest references the painting is so called "The Attack on the Village."
The painting depicts a simple village family begging not to kill their child, the mother fainting from helplessness, and many other poignant moments. This work by Brueghel is the first to deal with a historical social and moral theme at the same time. This is due to the events taking place in the Netherlands at the time.
The moment of creation of the work coincides with the beginning of the revolutionary struggle of the locals against Spanish Catholicism and feudalism.
From the beginning of the revolution in all of Bruegel’s works, the events of that period of time begin to be discernible.
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Perhaps it’s a painting of a winter scene with a crowd of people in the foreground and a man on a horse in the middle of the foreground.