Keyword: Self-Sacrifice
Iohannis Volkelii Misnici De vera religione libri quinque: quibus praefixus est Iohannis Crelli Franci liber De Deo et ejus attributis, ita ut unum cum illis opus constitat
Raków: Typis Sebastiani Sternacii, 1630.
Samson Destroying the Temple of the Philistines (1584)
from: The Story of Samson, Published by Gerard de Jode (Netherland)
Harvard Art Museum
Principibus Samson fatum crudele parabat, Dum basin frangit Utramque manu (1643)
from: Claes Jansz Visscher; Nicolaus Johannis Piscator, Theatrum Biblicum: Hoc est historiæ sacræ Veteris et Novi Testamenti tabulis æneis expressæ, [Amsterdam] C.J. Visscher, 1643
Great War, Religious Dimensions
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Samson pulling down the house at Gaza (1491)
from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 35v
British Museum, London
Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Samson breaking the pillars of the house of the Philistines [1530-1549]
Bologna, Chiesa di San Domenico (coro ligneo)
Samson breaking the pillars of the house of the Philistines (1535)
from: Chronica, Beschreybung und gemeyne anzeyge, Vonn aller Wellt herkommen....', Frankfurt: Christian Egenolph, 1535
The British Museum, London
Samson's Sacrifice [1470 - 1475]
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Relief of Samson destroying the Temple (XVI)
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Sala Capitolare, portale dello scalone
Iudic. XVI, ad populi caecus Samson ludibria ductus diruit en valida vasta theatra manu [1712]
from: C. Wiegel, Historiae celebriores veteris testamenti iconibus representatae, et ad excitandas bonas meditationes selectis epigrammatibus exornatae in lucem datae a Christophoro Weigelio, Noribergae, 1712, n. p.