Lucas Cranach the Elder: Lot and his daughters (1528)

(Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria)

A painting by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553). this painting shows several scenes from the book of Genesis. According to the story Job and his daughters were living in the city of in Sodom. Two angels arrive in Sodom and Lob invites them in. People from the city, however, surround the house of Job and demand that he gives them the two guests so they could rape them. In response, Lot offers the mob his two daughters instead, The mob refuses Lot's offer, and the angels strike them with blindness, and then warn Lot to leave the city before it is destroyed. Lot and his daughters fled from Sodom but his wife looks back to the city and is turned into a salt pillar (this scene can be seen in the background). Lot and his two daughters escape to Zoar, and end up living in a cave in the mountains. Lot's daughters got their father drunk, and over two consecutive nights had sex with him without his knowledge. They both got pregnant. The older daughter gave birth to Moab (father of the Moabites), while the younger daughter gave birth to Ammon (father of the Ammonites). Painting from 1528.