During his lifetime Romantic painter Nicaise De Keyser was renowned as a painter of monumental history paintings, religious works and portraits. De Keyser interpreted one of the most dramatic moments in the New Testament in this painting. The painter emphasizes the drama of the moment and focused on the sorrow of the adults who were driven to madness, protectively covering the children’s corpses with their bodies. In the background the massacre is still going on.
| Artist |
Nicaise De Keyser
RKD
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| Title | The Massacre of the Innocents |
| Date | 1855 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year bottom right: NDe Keyser. 1855. |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1856-A |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
salon Ghent 1856 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1856-A |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/170/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300055874
religious symbolism
AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11I72(HEROD)
Herod (not in biblical context)
Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D111 infant, baby ~ the ages of man Iconclass 31D112 child Iconclass 31D15 adult woman Iconclass 42A3 mother and baby or young child Iconclass 42G2112 mother (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 42G2121 son (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 73 New Testament Iconclass 31E23 violent death, being killed; being mishandled and maltreated; seeking death Iconclass 42G212 children (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 61E(BETHLEHEM) names of cities and villages (BETHLEHEM) Iconclass 73B63 the massacre of the innocents Iconclass 73B632 soldiers entering Bethlehem ~ massacre of the innocents Iconclass 73B633 the massacre ot the innocents; sometimes Herod looking on Iconclass |
| School / Style |
historicism (theory)
AAT
Romantic (modern European styles) AAT |
| Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 86) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 202-203 (ill.)) |
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