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The Massacre of the Innocents
c. 1611–1612 · Oil on panel · Art Gallery of Ontario
For the Holy Innocents · 28 December
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A soldier lifts a child over his head with both hands, and his body is borrowed. The Rubens House traces the pose to Christ in Michelangelo's Resurrection: the same body that rose from the tomb here deals death. Beside him a mother claws at another soldier's face, and behind her the house finds the Laocoön. Children lie on the paving under the columns. Rubens, just back from Italy, painted as a pictor doctus, a learned painter showing Antwerp what he had studied. Later the painting passed as the work of Jan van den Hoecke and hung unnoticed in a corridor of an Austrian monastery, until Sotheby's recognised it as Rubens weeks before the 2002 sale. Matthew gives it one sentence: Herod "killed all the menchildren that were in Bethlehem." Herod never appears. His soldiers do.
Sources: c. 1610, oil on panel, 142 × 183 cm, accession 2014/1581 · the soldier taken from Christ in Michelangelo's Resurrection, and the Laocoön behind the clawing woman; Rubens as pictor doctus just back from Italy · attributed to Jan van den Hoecke until Sotheby's identified it as Rubens weeks before the 2002 sale · it hung unnoticed in a corridor of an Austrian monastery before the sale
Then Herod perceiving that he was deluded by the wise men, was exceeding angry: and sending killed all the menchildren that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Matthew 2:16 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)