Woman With a Head of Roses (Mujer con cabeza de rosas) - Salvador Dali Painting - Surrealism Art - Art Prints Indian Master Collection while Rubens had portrayed Delilah

while Rubens had portrayed Delilah as an unscrupulous seductress and Samson as a captive

the 'spasm' of the Virgin was fashionable

claiming that he had not known of them in Russia

who offered her hand in marriage to anyone who could bend a bow belonging to Shiva

behind a table laden with bottles

Woman With a Head of Roses (Mujer con cabeza de rosas) - Salvador Dali Painting - Surrealism Art - Art Prints Indian Master Collection while Rubens had portrayed DelilahWoman with a Head of Roses' is clearly influenced by mannered, elegant fashion illustration and design. It is making some comments on femininity, on woman as symbolized by flowers, roses being a not uncommon symbol for the female sex organs. The lion appears in other Dali works and may also involve sexuality sexual voraciousness.