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Original fileThe scene depicts Lot reclining and embracing one daughter while the other, seen from behind, pours more wine from an ornate pitcher. In the distance, the silhouette of a city is consumed by fire and smoke. The figures' musculature and the intricate, swirling folds of their garments reflect the sophisticated artifice of the Haarlem Mannerist style.
Produced within the circle of Hendrick Goltzius under imperial privilege from Rudolf II, this print serves as a moralizing allegory on the fragility of human virtue. It represents the intersection of biblical narrative and the refined, often hermetic aesthetic preferences of the late 16th-century northern European courts.
HGoltzius Inuent. Saenredam sculpsit. Aº 1597. Cum privil. Sa. Ce. M. Deflagrasse omnem cum credunt ignibus orbem, Et genus humanum planè periisse, parenti Dulcia Lyei prebentes pocula Bacchi, Illicito amplexu natæ, thalamoq; fruuntur. C. Schonæus.
Translation
H. Goltzius invenit. Saenredam sculpsit. Anno 1597. With the privilege of His Imperial Majesty. When they believe the whole world to have burned with fires, And the human race to have perished entirely, offering Sweet cups of Lyean Bacchus to their parent, The daughters enjoy an illicit embrace and marriage-bed. C. Schonæus.
Genesis 19:30-38
The engraving illustrates the biblical narrative of Lot and his daughters after the destruction of Sodom.
Cornelis Schonaeus
Schonaeus, a Christian humanist teacher known as the 'Christian Terence,' authored the moralizing Latin verses at the bottom of the plate.
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Engraving
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Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1622276
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3343 × 2637 px
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March 1, 2021
March 23, 2026
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