The Massacre of the Innocents (Without the Fir Tree)
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The Massacre of the Innocents (Without the Fir Tree) by Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, 1470/82–1527/34) (about 1511–12). Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland Rights: CC0. https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.23

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Raphael drew this composition to be engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi while working in the Vatican apartments adjacent to Michelangelo, who was then painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The emotive scene portrays a moment from the biblical Book of Matthew when King Herod, hearing of the birth of a savior, ordered the execution of all male children under two years of age. Known for the clarity and balance of his forms and compositions, the younger Raphael may have found inspiration for this composition in Michelangelo’s narrative intensity and active, twisting nude forms.

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A crowded group of people in Florence frantically flee a devastating plague outbreak, depicted in a dramatic engraving.

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