Cogniet Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/cogniet/ AUTHOR | SPEAKER | MISSIOLOGIST | AGITATOR Thu, 29 Dec 2022 02:44:43 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://i0.wp.com/mikefrost.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-MF.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Cogniet Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/cogniet/ 32 32 116298986 Is this the greatest Christmas painting of all time? https://mikefrost.net/greatest-christmas-painting-time/ https://mikefrost.net/greatest-christmas-painting-time/#comments Fri, 22 Dec 2017 01:56:17 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=27513 It’s called Scène du massacre des Innocents (“Scene of the massacre of the Innocents”), and it was painted by the largely overlooked Parisian painter, Léon Cogniet in 1824. Today it hangs in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes. If it’s not the greatest of Christmas paintings, it must be one of the most haunting and affecting. […]

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