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Alexandre Cabanel | Samson and Delilah, 1878

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Delilah, also spelled Dalila, in the Old Testament, the central figure of Samson’s last love story (Judges 16).
She was a Philistine who, bribed to entrap Samson, coaxed him into revealing that the secret of his strength was his long hair, whereupon she took advantage of his confidence to betray him to his enemies. Her name has since become synonymous with a voluptuous, treacherous woman.

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Dalila, anche Dalila, nell'Antico Testamento, figura centrale dell'ultima storia d'amore di Sansone.
Era una filistea che, corrotta per intrappolare Sansone, lo persuase a rivelare che il segreto della sua forza erano i suoi lunghi capelli, dopodiché approfittò della sua sicurezza per tradirlo ai suoi nemici.
Da allora il suo nome è diventato sinonimo di donna voluttuosa ed insidiosa.

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Alexandre Cabanel | Mary Magdalene at the tomb, 1875

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 Alexandre Cabanel | The Roman Monk

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Alexandre Cabanel | The Evening Angel, 1848