Fresco - Chapelle Notre-Dame-des-Fontaines - La Brigue
Massacre of the Innocents, with Herod ordering the soldiers to kill first born sons, and mothers weeping and imploring, by Giovanni Canavesio, 1450-1500, detail from the fresco cycle of the Passion of Christ and Last Judgement, 15th century, by Giovanni Canavesio and Giovanni Baleison, in the Chapelle Notre-Dame-des-Fontaines or Shrine of Our Lady of the Fountains, near La Brigue, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. The catholic sanctuary chapel was built in the 13th century and enlarged in the 1490s, when the dukes of Savoy commissioned the paintings. It is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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