Samson and Delilah (van Dyck, Vienna)

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Samson and Delilah
The Capture of Samson
Anton van Dyck - Samson and Delilah - Google Art Project.jpg
Artist Anthony van Dyck
Year1630
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions254 cm× 146 cm(100 in× 57 in)
Location Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Samson and Delilah is a 1630 painting by Anthony van Dyck. Like his 1620 version of the subject, it is in the style of his former master Peter Paul Rubens. Unlike Rubens, however, van Dyck shows Delilah seemingly appalled at her own betrayal of Samson and regretting her act of treason, whereas Rubens showed him as a captive and her as an unscrupulous temptress. [1] Van Dyck's palette in the work also reveals the influence of Titian during van Dyck's stay in Italy. It is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

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  1. "Samson and Delilah", Google artProject