The Blinding of Samson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Painting by Rembrandt
The Blinding of Samson | |
---|---|
Artist | Rembrandt |
Year | 1636 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Location | Städel, Frankfurt am Main |
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.
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.
External links[]
Samson | ||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cultural depictions |
| |||||||||||||
Other |
This article about a seventeenth-century painting is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
- v
- t
Retrieved from ""
Categories:
- 1636 paintings
- Paintings by Rembrandt
- Paintings in the collection of the Städel
- Paintings depicting Samson
- Torture in art
- 17th-century painting stubs
Hidden categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Articles with RKDID identifiers
- All stub articles