Plate with Samson Killing the Philistines
In this scene, Samson stands on top of four slaughtered Philistines. With both hands he holds the spear that he used to kill them. Samson was a traditional emblem of virtue during the Renaissance period, and his slaying of the Philistines symbolized the triumph of good over ev...
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H. Wencke Collection, Hamburg [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 15] (?); Seligmann, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, May 7, 1908, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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