- His Blinding of Samson more than any other work shows Rembrandt’s unrivalled use of the High Baroque style to appeal to his contemporaries’ interest in the...
- Rembrandt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
- The one seems completely helpless buried under Samson, the next one is about to blind Samson but grabs the knife by the scabbard and threatens to injure...
- It is instructive to compare this canvas portrait with the one entitled ‘Samson and Delilah’ in which Rembrandt is more loyal to the biblical text.
- Information about the painting, location, other paintings of the artist. Album: Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn, #16/367.
- Rembrandt Judges 16:28 And Samson called to Jehovah and said, O, Lord Jehovah, remember me, I pray You, and strengthen me, I pray You, only this once...
- The Blinding of Samson is considered by many scholars to be Rembrandt’s most gruesome and violent work.
- The superhuman strength with which God endowed the Old Testament judge Samson resides in his uncut hair.
- Picture and description of a work by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn: The Blinding of Samson.