Lot

An angel with expansive wings and a traveler's staff leads an elderly Lot away from the doomed city. Lot is depicted as a muscular figure carrying a large, clasped book, while in the background his wife is shown mid-transformation into a pillar of stone for looking back at the flames. The scene is framed by a classical Vitruvian scroll border, typical of the refined Mannerist printmaking of the period.

The inclusion of a book in Lot's hands is an anachronism that suggests he is a carrier of divine law or the 'Prisca Theologia' (ancient wisdom), a concept central to Renaissance Neoplatonism. In the alchemical tradition, the transformation of Lot's wife was frequently interpreted as an allegory for the chemical process of fixation and the nature of 'Philosophical Salt.'