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"The Massacre of the Innocents"

Bruegel's best-known painting appears to be a Christmas scene, but with a closer look, it becomes the massacre of a village, with the ghostly remnants of children who have been painted over in later years to conceal its true horror

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The Great Picture TrailChristopher Lloyd on Bruegel

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