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The Massacre of the Innocents, 1855

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 202 x 149.5 cm
  • Inv. 1856-A

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During his lifetime Romantic painter Nicaise De Keyser was renowned as a painter of monumental history paintings, religious works and portraits. De Keyser interpreted one of the most dramatic moments in the New Testament in this painting. The painter emphasizes the drama of the moment and focused on the sorrow of the adults who were driven to madness, protectively covering the children’s corpses with their bodies. In the background the massacre is still going on.

Artist

Nicaise De Keyser RKD
Zandvliet 1813 - Antwerp 1887
painters (artists)AAT

Title The Massacre of the Innocents
Date 1855
Period 19th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signature and year bottom right: NDe Keyser. 1855.
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1856-A
Acquisition credit purchase
salon
Ghent
1856
Current whereabouts Work on display
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/170/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300055874 religious symbolism AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 11I72(HEROD) Herod (not in biblical context) Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass
31D111 infant, baby ~ the ages of man Iconclass
31D112 child Iconclass
31D15 adult woman Iconclass
42A3 mother and baby or young child Iconclass
42G2112 mother (first degree family relationships) Iconclass
42G2121 son (first degree family relationships) Iconclass
73 New Testament Iconclass
31E23 violent death, being killed; being mishandled and maltreated; seeking death Iconclass
42G212 children (first degree family relationships) Iconclass
61E(BETHLEHEM) names of cities and villages (BETHLEHEM) Iconclass
73B63 the massacre of the innocents Iconclass
73B632 soldiers entering Bethlehem ~ massacre of the innocents Iconclass
73B633 the massacre ot the innocents; sometimes Herod looking on Iconclass
School / Style historicism (theory) AAT
Romantic (modern European styles) AAT
Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 86)
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 202-203 (ill.))
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