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Description: | Disaster scenes like this Fire of Sodom are characteristic of the work of Kerstiaen de Keuninck. The iconography, however, is unusual: three angels urge Lot and just one of his daughters to embark on the ship which is moored in the foreground, instead of the two angels and two daughters mentioned in Genesis 19. 15-29. This might be the result of late alterations and repainting. Lot's wife, transformed into a pillar of salt, can be seen in the distance through an arch. She had been punished by God for looking back at Sodom which burns under a rain of 'brimstone and fire'. | Subjects: | religion (Lot Leaving Sodom angel) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Keuninck, Kerstiaen de (Flemish painter, born after 1560, died 1632 or 1633) Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Flemish School | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8989... | Go to resource |
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