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Massacre of the Innocents |
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| The tumult of agitated figures
in this fresco conveys a sense of broad melodrama. The horror of the event over which Herod presides is expressed
in the exaggerated shudder of the spectator on the left and the irony of placing the scene
before an octagonal structure reserved for baptisms on the right. The executioners' once-gold swords
have since flaked off the walls. The pile of dead babies stacked like cords of wood is disturbingly familiar
to our own time. |
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