The Massacre of the Innocents

The presumed prototype is in the Uffizi, Florence. The attribution to Mazzolino has not, however, been universally accepted by writers on the artist: Berenson (Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London, 1968, p. 267) regarded it as a studio work; Zamboni (Ludovico Mazzolino, Milan, 1968, pp. 42-3, no. 26, fig. 63a) listed it as by an anonymous Ferrarese painter close to Battista Dossi; and Ballarin (Dosso Dossi. La Pittura a Ferrara negli anni del ducato di Alfonso I, Padua, 1995, I, p. 260, no. 198, figs. CXC, CXCII, 130-1 and 133) gave it to Mazzolino, dating it c. 1528.

Another copy is in the Art Gallery of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.