Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Massacre of the Innocents Pieter Bruegel the Elder [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsSeveral 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
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