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Léon Cogniet (29 August 1794 – 20 November 1880) was a French history and portrait painter. He is probably best remembered as a teacher, with more than one hundred notable students. He is probably best remembered as a teacher, with more than one hundred notable students.
The Massacre (or Slaughter) of the Innocents is a story recounted in the Nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem. [2]
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The Massacre of the Innocents is the subject of two paintings by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the episode of the biblical Massacre of the Innocents of Bethlehem, as related in the Gospel of Matthew (2:13–18). The first, measuring 142 x 182 cm, was painted after his return to his native Antwerp in 1608, following eight years spent in Italy.
Scenes of July 1830 (French: Scène de Juillet 1830) is an 1830 oil painting by the French artist Léon Cogniet. [1] It symbolically depicts the July Revolution of 1830 which led to the downfall of Charles X and the House of Bourbon. Cogniet uses three flags to demonstrate the overthrow the of the government.
Reynolds executed a considerable number of plates in France, including The Raft of the Medusa, after Géricault; La Bonne Fille, after Haudebourt-Lescot; The Massacre of the Innocents, after Léon Cogniet; Mazeppa, after Horace Vernet; a few fancy subjects after Dubufe; and some studies after Charlet. Several of these were exhibited at the ...
Of these two, the Shearmen and Tailors' Pageant was a nativity play portraying events from the Annunciation to the Massacre of the Innocents, and the Weavers' Pageant dealt with the Purification and the Doctors in the Temple. [7]
Articles relating to the Massacre of the Innocents, which was according to the Gospel of Matthew a mass infanticide, ordered by Herod the Great. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.