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Scene from the Massacre of the Innocents

Workshop from CompostelaCa.1250-1350

The Catedral de Santiago Foundation

The Catedral de Santiago Foundation
Santiago de Compostela, Spain

The scenes belonging to these reliefs, which are of great artistic interest, follow the usual iconographic model used in Hispanic art during the last centuries of the Middle Ages; emphasising, with great expressiveness, the brutality of the slaughter of the infants at the hands of the soldiers, sometimes faced with their mothers’ pleas.

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  • Title: Scene from the Massacre of the Innocents
  • Creator: Workshop from Compostela
  • Date: Ca.1250-1350
  • Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • Type: Relief
  • Medium: Granite with remains of polychrome
The Catedral de Santiago Foundation

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