Duccio di Buoninsegna1311

Massacre of the Innocents

Predella, front. Herod's soldiers strike down the Bethlehem boys.

Massacre of the Innocents
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Depicted passages

Matthew 2:16-18Primary
Portrait of Duccio di Buoninsegna

About Duccio di Buoninsegna

1255–1319 · Italian (Sienese)

Duccio di Buoninsegna was the founder of the Sienese school and author of the Maestà (1308–1311), the altarpiece of Siena Cathedral. Its central Madonna in Majesty and roughly fifty small narrative panels — Infancy, Ministry, Passion, Resurrection appearances, and Life of the Virgin — form one of the most complete visual gospels of the Middle Ages.

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