Massacre of the Innocents by Lucas Cranach the Elder

Painting of soldiers slaughtering infants before a gilded gate, with grieving mothers and the Virgin Mary in the foreground.

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A crowded composition set beneath a gilded city gate shows armored soldiers on horseback and on foot amid a mass of dead and dying infants in the foreground. Grieving mothers reach out in anguish while a seated Virgin with the Christ child appears at lower right, and a distant landscape with a figure on a donkey lies at upper left.

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1515

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