The Good Samaritan (After Delacroix) – Vincent van Gogh Pier Giorgio A lot of the Josephs

A lot of the Josephs from the Renaissance to Victorian times are sweetened up or made to look epic

Lucia Santos

and especially nice as a giclee on canvas

and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it

when they sent such notes

The Good Samaritan (After Delacroix) – Vincent van Gogh Pier Giorgio A lot of the JosephsWe confess that until recently we did not know that van Gogh had ever done religious subjects. Then we found this Good Samaritan painting of his! Although we tend to avoid museum pieces in our shop, this one was too beautiful to ignore. "The Good Samaritan (After Delacroix)" portrays the man from Samaria pushing the robbed man onto his horse. In composition, its structure is a copy, in reverse, of an 1849 Delacroix painting. Today we call that an