The Power of Women: Samson and Delilah
Medium
woodcut
Dimensions
41.1 × 28.7 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the Print Club of Cleveland in memory of Charles T. Brooks
Accession Number
1935.117
Tags
male
About this artwork
The publication of Albrecht Dürer's three impressive woodcut series in 1511—The Large Passion, The Apocalypse, and The Life of the Virgin—had an immediate impact on Northern painters such as Lucas. Lucas's first major designs for woodcuts were six large images whose theme was the power of women, that is, women's ability to dominate man by using wiles and beauty was a subject with broad, popular appeal at the time. The woodcut medium was eminently suitable for the bold, straightforward manner in ...