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The Massacre of the Innocents

From the series One hundred masterpieces
The Massacre of the Innocents Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (1562–1638), oil on canvas, 1590

On this large canvas Cornelis van Haarlem depicted the atrocities of the biblical massacre of innocent children in Bethlehem. Atrocity follows upon atrocity. Who would commission such a work? And why?

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