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Lot and his Daughters, with Sodom and Gomorrah Burning

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Author
  
Pătruţ (PICU)

Publication date
  
1842

Artist
  
Picu Pătruţ

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Country
  
Romania

Media type
  
laid paper

Created
  
24 May 1842

Lot and his Daughters, with Sodom and Gomorrah Burning

Lot and his Daughters, with Sodom and Gomorrah Burning is a miniature in pen and watercolour from a very late illuminated manuscript bible. The illustration is one of the 139 miniatures made from 1842 to 1851 for the "Bible of St. Petersburg" from 1819. They were started on May 24, 1842 by Picu Pătruț (1818 — 1872) of Transylvania.

The page size is 19 x 15 centimeters. It is in the collection of Museum of the Romanian Peasant.

The scene uses the traditional iconography for the biblical scene of Lot and his daughters, leaving the Cities of the Plain, led by an angel. On the right behind them is Lot's wife, who been turned into a pillar of salt for looking back to the city.

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