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[artandthebible]

Samson and Delilah

Artist: Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Italian, 1708-1787)

Date: 1788

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, United States

Description

Samson and Delilah portrays the crucial moment in the Old Testament narrative in which Delilah has clipped off the long locks of the Israelite warrior. At the urging of his rivals, the Philistines, Delilah had tricked Samson into revealing that his hair was the source of his superhuman strength. Still holding a pair of shears in one hand, she signals with the other toward the band of soldiers waiting to overpower the fallen hero. Known primarily for his portraits of wealthy British tourists abroad, Pompeo Batoni also produced history paintings such as this one, depicting moralizing subjects drawn from historical and religious sources. By the mid-1750s, his narrative paintings had become so costly that only the wealthiest visitors to Rome could afford them.

Biblical Narrative | Judges 16:18-20

Now when Delilah realized that he had confided to her all his heart, she sent and called for the Philistine lords saying, “Come up this time, for he has told me all his heart.” So the Philistine lords came up to her and brought the silver in their hand. Then she made him sleep upon her knees, and she called for a man and had the seven locks of his head shaved off. She even began to humiliate him while his strength departed from him. Then she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” When he awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I’ll go out as at other times, and shake myself off.” He did not comprehend that Adonai had departed from him.

[theapostlesdoctrine]

And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: but God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you. And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night. He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people. Exodus 13:17‭-‬22 KJVA #TheApostlesDoctrine #Pharaoh #People #God #Land #Phillistines #War #FeastofTabernacles2018 #JesusChrist #Yahawashi #Church #MostHigh #God #12TribesofIsrael #12Tribes #12 #Christians #Christianity #Saints #HebrewIsraelites #Israelites https://www.instagram.com/p/BoLUakwnDJB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16hcbqorbm366

[artandthebible]

The Blinding of Samson

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)

Date: c. 1609-1610

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Description

Rubens depicts an episode from the life of Samson recounted in the Old Testament. According to this account, the Philistines entrusted Delilah with seducing Samson in order to discover the secret of his great strength and thus capture him. After Samson foiled her attempts several times, Delilah, who was paid for her work, succeeded in gaining his confidence and he confided his secret to her. He fell asleep in her lap and she called a man to cut off the seven locks of his hair in which his powers of strength lay. Once deprived of his might, Delilah summoned the Philistines who captured him, put out his eyes and took him to Gaza.

Rubens here chooses the most dramatic and violent moment of the story, when the Philistines, represented by four figures, hurl themselves on Samson to take him prisoner. The artist constructs a compact group in which Samson stands out through his central location and his contorted pose, defending himself and trying to escape from his captors. One of the Philistines holds a lance to his chest, while another has a flaming torch which provides the only touch of scarlet in the painting, and another brandishes a dagger above his eyes in a threatening gesture. Delilah is to be seen on the left, her naked body partly covered by red draperies, in an exaggeratedly foreshortened pose and accompanied by an old woman who is probably her servant.

Read: Samson and Delilah

[downtownplayboy]

#Monday #number7 - be mindful of your #moods and #emotions and see beyond the #colors #jeanmichelbasquiat #phillistines #1982 #art (at New York, New York)

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