A long-standing debate over the authenticity of a work by 17th-century Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens at the National Gallery in London has reignited with a new book that claims the ...

Based on the Old Testament story of the Israelite hero Samson, the painting depicts the moment an accomplice of his treacherous lover Delilah cuts off his hair, the source of his warrior power. Rubens ...

Concerns over whether Peter Paul Rubens painted the Samson and Delilah ... and she allows a young man to cut off the source of the warrior’s power – his hair. Samson and Delilah was purchased ...

The debate about the authenticity of a Rubens's masterpiece ... hero Samson, the painting depicts the moment an accomplice of his treacherous lover Delilah cuts off his hair, the source of ...

The painting depicts the Old Testament story where Israelite hero Samson falls asleep on Delilah’s lap and she allows a young man to cut off the source of the warrior’s power – his hair.