The Coventry Carol

20th December 2017 OldTrout Arts, Christianity, Music, Philosophy 999

OldTrout, Going Postal — *Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Massacre of the Innocents*
Pieter Bruegel the Elder [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Several oil-on-oak-panel versions of The Massacre of the Innocents were painted by 16th-century Netherlandish painters Pieter Bruegel the Elder and his son Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The work translates the Biblical account of the Massacre of the Innocents into a winter scene in the Netherlands in the prelude to the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule, also known as the Eighty Years’ War. Wiki