a giant living in the mountains far from other inhabitants of the villages and the valley; he is a jentil or Basque pagan of the forest. As told in many folk accounts, endowed with might as he is, he launches rocks that lie at the origin of different prominences and hills all over the Basque Country, especially in the west, while in the east the preferred character to account for similar phenomena is the medieval hero Roland, Errolan in Basque. Art Samson has been a popular subject for painting and sculpture: Alexander Anderson, Samson Fighting the Lion, ca. 1800 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Jean Audran, after F. Verdier, The Burial of Samson, ca. 1700 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino), Samson and the Honeycomb, ca. 1657 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Niccolu Boldrini, after Titian, Samson and Delilah, ca. 1540–1545, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Boucicaut Master, Samson and the Lion, 1415, Getty Museum Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Samson and Delilah, ca. 1500 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Lovis Corinth, Samson Blinded, 1912 Giuseppe Caletti (Il Cremonese), Samson and Delilah, ca. 1625 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Lucas Cranach the Elder, Samson and Delilah, 1529 Samson's Fight with the Lion, 1520–25 Salomon de Bray, Samson with the Jawbone, 1636 Getty Museum Gerard de Jode, Samson Tying the Firebrands to the Foxes' Tails, ca. 1550 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Etienne Delaune, Samson Setting Fire to the Wheat of the Philistines, ca. 1575 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco H.B. (John Doyle), Samson and Delilah, ca. 1800 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Gustave Doré, Death of Samson, 1865 Samson and Delilah, 1865 Samson Carrying Away the Gates of Gaza, 1865 Samson Destroying the Philistines, 1865 Samson Destroys the Temple, 1866 Samson Fighting with the Lion, ca. 1496 Samson Slaying a Lion, 1865 Albrecht Dürer, Delilah Cuts Samson's Hair, 1493 Josephus Farmer, Samson, 1982, Smithsonian American Art Museum Philip Galle, Samson Fighting the Lion, ca. 1600 Lutheran Brotherhood's Collection of Religious Art Giambologna, Samson Slaying a Philistine, c. 1562. Luca Giordano, Samson and Delilah, ca. 1675 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Guercino, Samson Captured by the Philistines Samson and Delilah, 1654 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg) Reinhold Hoberg, Samson and Delilah, ca. 1900 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Lord Frederic Leighton, Illustrations for Dalziel's Bible Gallery, 1881, Tate