Delilah Shears a Lock of Samson's Hair (Illustration)

Illustration

by Lucas Cranach the Elder
published on 21 February 2022

Delilah Shears a Lock of Samson's Hair — 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.

License & Copyright

© 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.

Related Images

Image

Cite This Work

APA Style

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/

Chicago Style

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/.

MLA Style

Elder, Lucas Cranach the. "Delilah Shears a Lock of Samson's Hair." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 21 Feb 2022. Web. 21 Nov 2024.

Delilah Shears a Lock of Samson's Hair

Illustration

License & Copyright

Related Images

Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature as Samson and Delilah

Samson Interpreted by Victor Mature

Seal Lock

Samson Captured by the Philistines

The Wedding of Samson

Samson and the Lion

Cite This Work

APA Style

Chicago Style

MLA Style