Image description: painting of a marble statue of Samson holding open a lion's mouth.
This is a detail from this painting:
Found at: wikipedia. In collection of the Groeningemuseum.
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.
I read that as "Virgin and Chad" at first.
Could I have had too much internet? No, it is the words that are wrong.
What an absolutely gorgeous painting. Thank you for including the link for the museum. I spent a bit of time scrolling around looking at all the details. They are so intricate; it's incredible the amount of care that artists put into their work
You're welcome. The painting's not as big as I thought it was--it's "only" 1.6meters wide. I think my favorite tiny detail is the fraying on the edge of the rug.
Art of Samson and other historic or mythological figures drugging their pets.
TBH, this is an excuse to dig through art archives and find neat works of art to post that are vaguely related to the topic.