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Samson Pulls Down the Pillars

A painting by James Tissot showing the biblical Samson pulling down the pillars of the temple while the building crumbles all around.

Samson Pulls Down the Pillars
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Judges 16:23-31Primary
Portrait of James Tissot

About James Tissot

1836–1902 · French

French painter who, after a vision experience in 1885, devoted the rest of his career to an extensive illustrated New Testament based on travel through the Holy Land. His watercolors are now held at the Brooklyn Museum.

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