(b. 1654, Pieve di Soligo, d. 1726, Pieve di Soligo)
Samson and Delilah
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Oil on canvas, 115 x 149 cm
Private collection
The subject of Samson and Delilah, drawn from the Old Testament (Judges 16: 19-20), was frequently treated in seventeenth-century painting. It allowed artists to illustrate the supremacy of passion, and its unfortunate consequences once reason lays dormant.
