Massacre of the Innocents

1330 - Painting

The Massacre of the Innocents is a detached fresco by Pietro Lorenzetti, Francesco and Niccolò di Segna, dating from 1330-1340 and kept in the Basilica of the Servants in Siena. It is part of a cycle of frescoes in the chapels of the presbytery of the basilica, partly lost, among which this single scene is attributed a direct and substantial intervention by Maestro Lorenzetti.