Such is the strange way of this world
Year 1 AD (approximately): King Herod gets word that a new King of the Jews has been born. In a fit of jealous rage, he orders his soldiers to execute all the baby boys in Bethlehem.
1565-1567: Pieter Bruegel the Elder reinterprets the Massacre of the Innocents in a painting, but places the grizzly scene in a contemporary snowy Flemish village.
A tiny bit later: Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II acquires the painting and finds all the carnage unsavory. He orders artists to cover all the corpses with hams, cheese and nondescript bundles.
Such is the strange way of this world.
