Year 1636 Artist Rembrandt Created 1636 | Medium Oil on canvas Period Baroque Genre Christian art | |
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Location Städel, Frankfurt am Main Similar Rembrandt artwork, Baroque artwork, Christian art | ||
The Blinding of Samson is a 1636 painting by Rembrandt, now in the Städel. The painting is the first of its kind in pictorial tradition. No other artist at the time had painted this specific narrative moment. This painting was a gift to the House of Orange, Rembrandt's current patron of a few commissioned paintings.
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