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Friday, 27 December 2013

Massacre of the Holy Innocents



Today is the Feast of the Massacre of the Holy Innocents, so I thought I would put up a picture.  It is Pieter Brueghal's image of that subject.  Although it is a biblical subject, it is often taken to be a commentary on contemporary atrocities in the Low Countries by the Hapsburg regime.

I am often surprised that people seem to think that comments by analogy are somehow a modern invention. 

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