Word: sermonizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bruegel's most overtly political pictures are disguised by their ostensible subjects: The Massacre of the Innocents, The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist, The Road to Calvary, and The Conversion of Saint Paul. Safe themes-but not as handled by Bruegel. He trundled the terrible urgency of the Bible, like a siege tower, straight up against contemporary walls. His Massacre, for instance, takes place in a Flemish village of his own day. Walloon redcoats butcher baby after baby on the shining snow. Mothers and fathers pray, scream, struggle and reach out in vain. Spain's notorious "Edict...