Children of Bethlehem killed by Herod's orders (Massacre of the Innocents)

Duccio’s Massacre of the Innocents presents a crowded interior scene in which mothers and infants cluster in the foreground while soldiers advance with swords, and a king with attendants sits on a raised throne to the right. The figures are elongated and softly modeled, outlined in dark lines, and grouped in dense, almost schematic clusters against a decorative architectural backdrop with columns and patterned wall panels. The palette emphasizes warm reds, greens and ochres with pale flesh tones and blues, and the space reads in a flat, narrative manner characteristic of Duccio’s Sienese, International Gothic style.