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Peter Paul Rubens. Massacre of the Innocents.
1611 - 1612, Oil on panel, 142 x 182 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
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This is one of the most brutal episodes in biblical history. Herod's soldiers have been ordered to kill all new-born boys to stop one of them becoming a Messiah.
"Massacre of the Innocents" is a theme that Peter Paul Rubens painted more than once. One version, now in Munich. Another, his dynamic "Massacre of the Innocents"
is one of the most expensive Old Master painting ever auctioned, after being purchased by Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet for £49.5 million GBP
(then equal to some $76.7 million USD) at a 2002 Sotheby's auction. Following the auction this painting was donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto
by Lord Thomson. It was also loaned to the National Gallery in London for several months shortly after the auction.
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