Samson Drugging the Cat

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Art of Samson and other historic or mythological figures drugging their pets.

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detail from "Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele". Oil painting on oak panel. Jan van Eyck, ca 1434. (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 years ago by grysbok to c/samsondruggingthecat

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Image description: painting of a marble statue of Samson holding open a lion's mouth.

This is a detail from this painting:

Image description of full painting: huge painting, framed, of the Christian Madonna with baby Jesus in her lap. She is seated on a throne. To her left is a blue-robed religious figure with a bishop hat. To her right is a kneeling white-robed man and a standing armored man. There are tiny statues to her left and right, one of which is the detail image.

Found at: wikipedia. In collection of the Groeningemuseum.

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[–] grysbok 5 points 2 years ago

Note: this is the first time I've used the embedded alt text feature for an image in Lemmy. If anyone's visually impaired and has an opinion on alt text image descriptions vs paragraph image descriptions, lemmy know.