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Title: Samson Setting Fire to the Cornfields of the Philistines, from "The Story of Samson," a series of three plates Artist: After Jan Snellinck I (Netherlandish, Mechelen ca. 1549–1638 Antwerp) Artist: Formerly as after Maerten de Vos (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1532–1603 Antwerp)
The Blinding of Samson is a 1636 painting by Rembrandt, now in the Städel (in Frankfurt). The painting is the first of its kind in pictorial tradition. No other artist at the time had painted this specific narrative moment.
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The Capture of Samson. 1609–10. Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640) This panel, made as a sketch for a larger painting commissioned by the mayor of Antwerp, Nicolas Rockox, demonstrates the influence of the ancient and modern art Peter Paul Rubens studied in Italy. The subject comes from a story in the Hebrew Bible in which the mighty ...
Samson’s encounter with a lion was one of the legendary Israelite hero’s earliest feats. Here, Cristoforo Stati emphasized Samson’s bulging muscles as he effortlessly tears apart the lion’s jaw. Stati studied in Florence under Flemish-born artist Jean de Boulogne, called Giambologna.
Peter Paul Rubens’s Samson and Delilah portrays a tragedy of love and betrayal. According to the Old Testament, Samson, a Jewish hero blessed with superhuman strength, killed a thousand Philistine soldiers with the jawbone of a donkey. The Philistine leaders wanted revenge.
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