''Lot and His Daughters'' (Italian: '' Loth con le figlie'') is an 1833

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by the Italian artist

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. It portrays the

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scene of

Lot's daughters 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 ...

's attempting to seduce their father Lot, having intoxicated him with

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. In the distance can be seen the burning city's of

Sodom and Gomorrah In the Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah () were two cities destroyed by God for their wickedness. Sodom and Gomorrah are repeatedly invoked throughout the Hebrew Bible, Deuterocanonical texts, and the New Testament as symbols of sin, di ...

.De Capoa p.88 The story has been a popular subject for artists for several centruries. Hayez, a leading painter of the

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, often combined religious themes with

nude art The nude, as a form of visual art that focuses on the unclothed human figure, is an enduring tradition in Western art. It was a preoccupation of Ancient Greek art, and after a semi-dormant period in the Middle Ages returned to a central position ...

References

Bibliography

* De Capoa, Chiara. ''Old Testament Figures in Art''. Getty Publications, 2003. * Mazzocca, Fernando . ''Hayez privato: arte e passioni nella Milano romantica''. U. Allemandi, 1997. * Vasta, Daniela. ''La pittura sacra in Italia nell’Ottocento: Dal Neoclassicismo al Simbolismo''. Gangemi Editore, 2012. 1833 paintings Paintings by Francesco Hayez Nude paintings of women Oil on canvas paintings Paintings of Lot (biblical person) {{1830s-painting-stub