Delilah Shears a Lock of Samson's Hair
by Lucas Cranach the Elder
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Painting depicting an Old Testament scene where the Israelite judge Samson sleeps on his lover Delilah's lap while the latter shears a lock of his hair to drain his super-human strength. Oil on beech. Created by Lucas Cranach the Elder around 1528–30.
Located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
© Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Republished for educational/scholarly use under the museum's Open Access for Scholarly Content initiative. Original image by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Uploaded by Celina Bebenek, published on 21 February 2022. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: Copyright. You cannot use, copy, distribute, or modify this item without explicit permission from the author. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
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Elder, . C. t. (2022, February 21). Delilah Shears a Lock of Samson's Hair. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/15286/delilah-shears-a-lock-of-samsons-hair/
Elder, Lucas Cranach the. "Delilah Shears a Lock of Samson's Hair." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified February 21, 2022. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/15286/delilah-shears-a-lock-of-samsons-hair/.
Elder, Lucas Cranach the. "Delilah Shears a Lock of Samson's Hair." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 21 Feb 2022. Web. 31 Jan 2023.
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