* 2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens ' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £ 49. 5million ( US $ 76. 2 million ) to Lord Thomson.

Massacre of the Innocents, showing the use of multiple stoppings-out to create the fainter lines of the distant view.

** At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens ' painting " The Massacre of the Innocents " ( first version ) is sold for £ 49. 5million ( US $ 76. 2 million ) to Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet.

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The most famous original prints to result from the collaboration were Lucretia, the Judgement of Paris and The Massacre of the Innocents ( of which two virtually identical versions were engraved ).

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The Massacre of the Innocents was an episode of infanticide and gendercide by Herod the Great, the king of Iudaea Province.

The Massacre of the Innocents is at Matthew 2: 16-18, although the preceding verses form the context:

Matthew's purpose is to present Jesus as the Messiah, and the Massacre of the Innocents as the fulfillment of passages in Hosea, referring to the exodus, and Jeremiah, to the Babylonian exile.

Thus, according to Paul L. Maier, the majority of Herod biographers and theologians hold that the Massacre of the Innocents is " legend and not historical ": Geza Vermes and E. P. Sanders, for example, regard the story as part of a creative hagiography.

The Massacre of the Innocents at Bethlehem, by Matteo di Giovanni

Cornelis van Haarlem, Massacre of the Innocents, 1590, Rijksmuseum

Rubens, Massacre of the Innocents ( Rubens ) | Massacre of the Innocents, Toronto

The theme of the " Massacre of the Innocents " has provided artists of many nationalities with opportunities to compose complicated depictions of massed bodies in violent action.

The horrific subject matter of the Massacre of the Innocents also provided a comparison of ancient brutalities with early modern ones during the period of religious wars that followed the Reformation-Bruegel's versions show the soldiers carrying banners with the Habsburg double-headed eagle ( often used at the time for Ancient Roman soldiers ).

Guido Reni's early ( 1611 ) Massacre of the Innocents, in an unusual vertical format, is at Bologna.

Another, his grand Massacre of the Innocents is now at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.

The French painter Nicolas Poussin painted The Massacre of the Innocents ( 1634 ) at the height of the Thirty Years ' War.

* Images of the " Massacre of the Innocents "

To the right of the " Platonica " is the chapel of Honorius III, adapted as the vestibule of the mausoleum, with interesting 13th century paintings of Peter and Paul, the Crucifixion, saints, the Massacre of the Innocents, Madonna and Child, and other subjects.

At the Château de Chantilly ( Musée Condé ) he saw Nicolas Poussin's Massacre of the Innocents, a painting to which he was often to refer in his own later work.

In 1507 he executed a great altarpiece for S. Medardo at Arcevia in the Marche, the Madonna and Child, with the Massacre of the Innocents and other episodes.

Films such as Audition ( 1999 ), Wrong Turn ( 2003 ), and the Australian film Wolf Creek ( 2005 ), took their cues from The Last House on the Left ( 1972 ), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ), and The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ).

The 1929 Palestine riots ( see also the Hebron Massacre ), led Ze ' ev Jabotinsky to create a right-wing militia group called the Irgun Tzvai Leumi ( National Military Organization, known in Hebrew by its acronym " Etzel ").

In the zone known as the oprichnina, Ivan's followers carried out a series of bloody purges of the feudal aristocracy ( which he suspected of treachery after the betrayal of prince Kurbsky ), culminating in the Massacre of Novgorod ( 1570 ).

Engagements since 1979 have included the Islamic uprising in Syria ( 1979 – 82 ), notably including the Hama Massacre, the 1982 Lebanon War ( against Israel ), and the despatch of the 9th Armoured Division to Saudi Arabia in 1990-91, ahead of the 2.

The Stockholm Bloodbath, or the Stockholm Massacre ( Swedish: Stockholms blodbad, Danish: det stockholmske blodbad ), took place as the result of a successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces under the command of King Christian II.

Even though his character is not named Django ( in the Italian versions, that is ), Franco Nero brings a similar ambience to Texas, Adios and Massacre Time where the hero must confront surprising ( and dangerous ) family relations.

The following year the BBFC passed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for release with an 18 certificate ( indicating that it should not be seen or purchased by a person under 18 ), and it was broadcast a year later on Channel 4.

The first sequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 ( 1986 ), was considerably more graphic and violent than the original and was banned in Australia for 20 years before it was released on DVD in a revised special edition in October 2006.

Domestic tensions ran high at the start of the decade, with the Peterloo Massacre ( 1819 ), the Cato Street Conspiracy ( 1820 ), and the Radical War ( 1820 ) in Scotland.

* April – Massacre of Thessalonica: Resentment among the citizens of Thessalonica ( Thrace ), after the arrest of a popular charioteer, breaks out into violence.

During one event, the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew ( 1572 ), some ten to twenty thousand men, women, and children were massacred by Catholic mobs, chiefly in Paris, but also throughout France.

After the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre ( 1572 ), he used his influence to give to the refugees a hospitable reception at Geneva.

On 1 March 1562, however, in an incident known as the Massacre of Vassy, the Duke of Guise and his men attacked worshipping Huguenots in a barn at Vassy ( Wassy ), killing 74 and wounding 104.

* Chief Niwot ( c. 1825 – 1864 ), led a band in Northern Colorado and died from wounds sustained during the Sand Creek Massacre ).

* United States v. Cruikshank ( 1875 ), related to the Colfax Massacre

The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was a mass murder and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanking ( Nanjing ), the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Other accounts include first-person testimonies of Nanking Massacre survivors, eyewitness reports of journalists ( both Western and Japanese ), as well as the field diaries of military personnel.

The US Army attacked Spotted Elk ( aka Bigfoot ), Mnicoujou band of Lakota at the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890 at Pine Ridge.

Logistics for the trial were run by Office for Support of the Raboteau Massacre Trial, a special organization established by President Rene Preval and run by Ms. Florence Elie.

Bearing his large religious canvas of Massacre of the Innocents and a note from Count Vincenzo Rannuzi Cospi as an introduction, Crespi fled in the middle of the night to Florence in 1708, and gained the patronage of the Grand Duke Ferdinand I de ' Medici.