Blinding Of Samson
Oil on panel.
Blinding of samson. This painting was a gift to the house of orange rembrandt s current patron of a few commissioned paintings via its secretary constantijn huygens as an excuse for the. Samson was blind to the power of god s judgement. Dimensions 219 3 x 305 cm physical description oil on canvas inventory number 1383 acquisition acquired in 1905 with funds provided by städelsche stiftung städelscher museums verein the city of frankfurt am main and numerous friends of the museum.
No other artist at the time had painted this specific narrative moment. Not even gideon is illuminated in the way that samson is. The blinding of samson is a painting by the 17th century dutch master rembrandt and was produced in 1636.
Photo of the blinding of samson by rembrandt rembrandt s large canvas with life size figures and fierce contrasts of light is a fearful rendering of the story. Now samson had became blinded in both in his eyes. The blinding of samson painted by rembrandt 1636.
Samson lived his life on the motto it s not going to cost me you know for a while in fact for quite a long while it looked like he may have been right. The blinding of samson. After a long time samson s hair grew back.
One day when the philistines demanded for samson to come out to entertain them during a celebration in the temple of dagon. In the hebrew bible samson ˈ s æ m s ən. The blinding of samson was created in 1636 by rembrandt van rijn the dutch painter and etcher of baroque era.
The blinding of samson 1636. 37 5 x 58 5 cm. Favourite add to album share.
The philistines caught samson and gouged out his eyes. The way in which the soldiers attack samson blind him and force chains upon him could hardly be depicted more gruesomely. It depicts a biblical scene with samson having been tricked by delilah seized by the philistines who forced him to the ground and gouge out his eyes.
ש מ ש ו ן shimshōn man of the sun was the last of the judges of the ancient israelites mentioned in the book of judges chapters 13 to 16 and one of the last leaders who judged israel before the institution of the monarchy he is sometimes considered to be an israelite version of the popular near eastern folk. Full size image download image view in virtual tour print page. After that they put him to grinding a mill.
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. Chapter 16 of judges brings a close to the story of samson.
