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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.

The Blinding of Samson
Artist	Rembrandt
Year	1636
Medium	Oil on canvas
Location	Städel, Frankfurt am Main

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 delay of the commissioned Passion paintings. Later it was acquired by Friedrich Karl von Schönborn and remained in the Palais Schönborn-Batthyány in Vienna until it was acquired by the Städel in 1905.

Description

The Blinding of Samson shows an episode from the biblical story of Judge Samson. Samson was a Nazarite, which gave him special strength when he kept three conditions, such as not cutting his beard and hair. The scene depicted follows the cutting of Samson's hair by Delilah, who betrayed him to the Philistines. This aspect of the plot is repeated in this painting, since Delilah is shown in the background fleeing with a shock of hair and scissors in hand.[1]

Rembrandt also portrayed different aspects of the plot with the other characters. After his hair had been cut off, Samson had to be wrestled to the ground and tied up before his eyes were gouged out. This is what Rembrandt conveyed through the combatants, one of whom fearfully enters the scene, another holds Samson to the ground, one ties him up and one gouges out his eyes. The immediate action of the painting is the climax of the story, the blinding with the penetrating knife and the spurting blood. However, the viewer can reconstruct the entire action via the image.[2]

References

External links

• Die Blendung Simsons
• The Blinding of Samson by REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn

На других языках

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[de] Die Blendung Simsons

Die Blendung Simsons ist ein Historiengemälde von Rembrandt van Rijn. Das 219,3 Zentimeter hohe und 305 Zentimeter breite Bild zeigt die Blendung Simsons und gehört zu den bedeutendsten Werken Rembrandts.[1] Das Bild befindet sich in der Sammlung des Frankfurter Städel.

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- [en] The Blinding of Samson

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[fr] L'Aveuglement de Samson

L'Aveuglement de Samson est une peinture historique réalisée par l'artiste néerlandais Rembrandt en 1636. Cette peinture à l'huile de 205 × 272 cm représente l'aveuglement de Samson par les Philistins et constitue l'une des plus importantes œuvres de Rembrandt[1]. Le tableau est conservé au musée d'art Städel à Francfort-sur-le-Main, en Allemagne.

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[ru] Ослепление Самсона (картина)

Ослепление Самсона — картина голландского художника Рембрандта, написана в 1636 году. Также, встречается название — «Ослепление Самсона филистимлянами». За основу был взят сюжет из Ветхого Завета (Книга Судей, XVI, 4-21). На данный момент картина является частью экспозиции Штеделевского художественного института в Франкфурт-на-Майне.[1]

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