The Good Samaritan (After Delacroix) – Vincent van Gogh Pier Giorgio and the gates of the

and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it

You can see the strength that would let him give his life for another

when they sent such notes

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

The Good Samaritan (After Delacroix) – Vincent van Gogh Pier Giorgio and the gates of theWe 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