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Lot and His Daughters by Artemisia Gentileschi, c. 1635-38. The daughters of the biblical patriarch Lot appear in chapter 19 of the Book of Genesis, in two connected stories. In the first, Lot offers his daughters to a Sodomite mob; in the second, his daughters have sex with Lot without his knowledge to bear him children.
Lot's wife disobeyed instructions not to look around and was turned into a pillar of salt – her form is just visible in the left background of the painting. Lot and his daughters then hid in a cave; the daughters, fearing the end of their family line, then got their father drunk, so they could seduce him and perpetuate their lineage. [ 2 ]
The story, usually called Lot and his daughters, has been the subject of many paintings over the centuries, and became one of the subjects in the Power of Women group of subjects, warning men against the dangers of succumbing to the temptations of women, while also providing an opportunity for an erotic depiction. The scene generally shows Lot ...
Lot and his Daughters, or Lot and his Daughters, with Sodom and Gomorrah Burning is a subject in art showing Lot from the Hebrew Bible and his two daughters. Examples of such works include: Lot and His Daughters, c. 1520; Lot and His Daughters (Orazio Gentileschi, Los Angeles) Lot and His Daughters (Orazio Gentileschi, Bilbao)
The story of Lot's wife begins in Genesis 19 after two angels arrived in Sodom at eventide and were invited to spend the night at Lot's home. The men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and prompted Lot to offer up these men/angels to have sex with; instead, Lot offered up his two daughters but they were refused.
Lot and His Daughters is an oil on canvas landscape painting that measures 59.75 x 74.5 inches. The painting contains three figures, Lot and his daughters, centrally placed and surrounded by a landscape setting.
Lot and His Daughters is a 1633 oil-on-canvas painting of Lot and his daughters by the French artist Simon Vouet, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. It depicts the Book of Genesis story in which, after the destruction of Sodom by divine judgment, Lot and his daughters take refuge in a cave. The daughters, believing that there are ...
The exegetes Ibn Kathir, Al-Qurtubi and Al-Tabari do not read 'daughters' to mean Lot's literal daughters. They argue that since a prophet is like a father to his nation, Lot was directing the evildoers to turn away from their sins and engage in healthy and pious relationships with the daughters of the nation, i.e. women in general. [26]