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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Titian's Pastoral Scene: A Unique Rendition of Lot and His Daughters
Beteiligte:
Mellinkoff, Ruth
Erschienen:
Renaissance Society of America, 1998
Erschienen in:Renaissance Quarterly
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
0034-4338;
1935-0236
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Beschreibung:
<p>Titian's drawing called Pastoral Scene or Landscape with a Sleeping Nude and Animals is no ordinary landscape, its unordinariness underscored by an unusual combination of elements, which I maintain reveals a new and unique version of Lot and His Daughters. I contend that the large, naked woman in the right foreground is one of Lot's daughters; the two small figures resting or sleeping beneath the trees are Lot and his other daughter; the thatched houses in the middle left represent the little town of Segor where Lot first fled; the sheep represent livestock that Lot brought out of Sodom, as do the boar and goat; the boar and goat, however, also serve as symbols of lust and lechery; and the distant city with burning buildings in the city's right quarter is Sodom. Titian's inventiveness created an iconographic variation of an ancient theme.</p>