Samson and Delilah (van Dyck, Vienna)

Samson and Delilah is a 1630 painting by Anthony van Dyck. Like his 1620 version of the subject, it is in the style of his former master Peter Paul Rubens. Unlike Rubens, however, van Dyck shows Delilah seemingly appalled at her own betrayal of Samson and regretting her act of treason, whereas Rubens showed him as a captive and her as an unscrupulous temptress.^[1] Van Dyck's palette in the work also reveals the influence of Titian during van Dyck's stay in Italy. It is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

The Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest, by Willem van Haecht shows this painting hanging on the rear wall.

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^ "Samson and Delilah", Google artProject

Beatrice Marshall, Old Blackfriars: A Story of the Days of Anthony Van Dyck (1901), Kessinger Publishing, 2009

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List of paintings
Religious subjects	Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (1617) Crucifixion with Saints (1617–1619) Saint Martin Dividing his Cloak (1618) The Brazen Serpent (c. 1618–1620) The Apostle Matthew (c. 1618–1620) The Crowning with Thorns (1618–1620) The Betrayal of Christ (1618–1620) Bristol Madrid Minneapolis Saint Ambrose barring Theodosius from Milan Cathedral (c. 1619–1620) Samson and Delilah 1620 1630 Susanna and the Elders (c. 1631–1632) Madonna and Child (1621–1627) The Mocking of Christ (1628–1630) The Coronation of Saint Rosalia (1629) The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph (1629–1630) Madonna and Child with Two Donors (1630) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1630) Crucifixion (1630) The Ressurrection (1631–1632) Madonna with Partridges (1632) Deposition / Lamentation over the Dead Christ 1615 1618 1619 1629 1629–1630 1634 1635 1640
Saint Rosalia series (1624–1625)	Houston London Madrid New York Ponce Palermo (studio work) Munich (autograph or studio)
Mythological subjects	Drunken Silenus (1620) Jupiter and Antiope (1620) Diana and a Nymph Surprised by a Satyr (1622–1627) The Shepherd Paris (1628) Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus (1630–1632) Venus Asks Vulcan to Forge Arms for her Son Aeneas (1630–1632) Cupid and Psyche (1638–1640)
Portraits	Theresa Shirley (1622) Robert Shirley (1622) Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio (c. 1623) The Lomellini Family (c. 1625–1627) Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1632 or 1634) Charles I with M. de St Antoine (1633) Equestrian Portrait of Francisco de Moncada (1634) Francisco de Moncada (1634) Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano (1634) Charles I at the Hunt (c. 1635) Charles I in Three Positions (1635 or 1636) The Three Eldest Children of Charles I (Turin) (1635) The Three Eldest Children of Charles I (Royal Collection) (1636) Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (1637–1638) Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria (1638) Mary Hill, Lady Killigrew (1638) William Killigrew (1638) Queen Henrietta Maria, as St Catherine (1639) Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile (c. 1622) Magistrates of Brussels (Preparatory sketch) (1634–1635) Olivia Porter (1630s) Mary Villiers, Lady Herbert of Shurland (c. 1636) Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart (c. 1638)
Self-portraits	Vienna (1613–1614) New York (1620–1621) Self-Portrait with a Sunflower (1632–1633) Self-portrait with Sir Endymion Porter (1635) London (1640)
Other paintings	A Soldier on Horseback (c. 1616) Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsenna (c. 1618–1620)
Related	Hendrick van Balen the Elder (master) Peter Paul Rubens (master) Paul de Vos (collaborator) Van Dyke beard

Samson

Cultural
depictions

Art	Samson Slaying a Philistine (Giambologna, c. 1562) Samson and Delilah (Rubens, c. 1609–10) Samson and Delilah (van Dyck, 1620) Samson and Delilah (van Dyck, 1630) Samson and Delilah (Rembrandt, 1630) Samson Threatening His Father-In-Law (Rembrandt, 1635) The Blinding of Samson (Rembrandt, 1636) The Wedding Feast of Samson (Rembrandt, 1638) Samson Mocked (Steen, c. 1670)
Comics	Doc Samson Mighty Samson Samson
Film	Samson (1914) Samson and Delilah (1922) Samson and Delilah (1949) Aurat (1953) Samson (1961) Gideon and Samson: Great Leaders of the Bible (1965) Samson and Delilah (1984) Aaj Ka Samson (1991) Samson and Delilah (1996) Samson (2018)
Literature	Book of Judges 13–16 Samson Agonistes (Milton)
Music	Samson (Handel) Samson and Delilah (Saint-Saëns) "Samson and Delilah" (traditional song) "Sam and Delilah" (Gershwin) "Samson" (Emly Starr) "Delilah" (The Dresden Dolls) "Samson" (Regina Spektor)
Television	Samson & Goliath

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