# Samson and Delilah

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BELLUCCI, Antonio](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellucci-antonio-rb76ce17ed54156>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 115 x 149 cm

## Commentary

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. &lt;p&gt; &lt;table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor=&#34;\#99cccc&#34;&gt; &lt;tr valign=middle&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;/support/gif/listen.gif&#34; border=0 valign=middle&gt; Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 10 minutes\):&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;\#&#34; onClick=&#34;w=window.open \(&#39;/music1/19\_cent/saint-saens\_delila.html&#39;, &#39;newWin&#39;, &#39;scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350&#39;\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true&#34;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Camille Saint-Saens: Samson et Delila, Delila&#39;s aria&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

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- [Antiochus and Stratonice \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellucci-antonio-rb76ce17ed54156/antiochus-and-stratonice-detail-re67f80b04076db>)
- [Antiochus and Stratonice](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellucci-antonio-rb76ce17ed54156/antiochus-and-stratonice-r9799c17b157992>)
- [Danaë](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellucci-antonio-rb76ce17ed54156/dana-rb9423f9d6a54b6>)
- [Hercules in the Palace of Omphale](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellucci-antonio-rb76ce17ed54156/hercules-in-the-palace-of-omphale-r49f49ee35553d2>)
- [Portrait of a Procurator](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellucci-antonio-rb76ce17ed54156/portrait-of-a-procurator-rec3d9b71d6f648>)
- [Rebecca at the Well \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellucci-antonio-rb76ce17ed54156/rebecca-at-the-well-detail-r4fbd13a348b208>)
- [Rebecca at the Well](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellucci-antonio-rb76ce17ed54156/rebecca-at-the-well-r159c08c322f46a>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)