Soldiers seize children as women grieve beneath a raised ruler and a round building, against a blue sky.

Massacre of the Innocents

1303–1305

Dating: Date range
Made in: Padua, Italy
Held at: Scrovegni Chapel
Medium: Fresco
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: Public Domain Mark 1.0 / PD-ArtLicense details

Giotto di Bondone, Massacre of the Innocents. Scrovegni Chapel, Padua. Reproduction via Wikimedia Commons (PD-Art). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression to at most 100,000 bytes; no crop or generated content.

Collection: Scrovegni Chapel

Location checked Sep 7, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

Artwork sources

Scrovegni Chapel, Padua
Wikimedia Commons

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