The_Massacre_Of_The_Innocents

The Massacre Of The Innocents “The Massacre of the Innocents”, an oil on canvas painting by Pacecco de Rosa during the 1600s, depicts a scene from the Bible in which we see the moment when soldiers were sent out by King Herod to kill every child in the region to end the rumors of a child prophesied to rule the kingdom. The baby whom he was looking for was none other than Jesus Christ. And upon careful observation, one can see that among all of the chaos occurring in this painting, there is one mother and child who do not seem to be frightened like the others, so one may conclude that this is Mary and her son, Jesus. However, this couple is actually Mary’s cousin, Elizabeth, and her son, John the Baptist. Their presence in the painting is important, because they are the two main subjects, yet, ironically, they, at first, are the least noticeable. Their coloring is the least dynamic compared to the other figures, and they are located farther back in space than most of the figures as well. One may say they are the calm in the center of the storm, because we see that neither painting, one, figures, because, very, rosa, de, canvas, another, two, space, seem, yet, strokes, paint, out, light, however, every, child, viewer, top, through, strong, source, others, meant, main, john, instance, important, first, figure, far, faces