The Slaughter of the Innocents

1687
St. Catherine's Chapel
Cathedral of St. Mary, Pamplona, Spain

Usually Herod is included in images of the massacre (Matthew 2:16-18), and often a multitude of figures is pictured. But here the event is refined to just two soldiers, two mothers, and two baby boys. One of the boys is naked, a common motif in images of this type.

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Photographed at the cathedral by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.