1971.43 School of Fontainebleau, Lot and His Daughters | DMA Staging Content Management System

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Following its emergence in Italy in the early 16th century, the Mannerist style travelled to France through a group of Italian artists employed by King Francis I (1494-1547) to decorate his palace at Fontainebleau. The disturbing biblical story of Lot and his two daughters, who, in an effort to preserve the family’s blood line after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, get their father drunk to trick him into impregnating them, was particularly suited to these artists’ quest for erotic subjects allowing them to depict sensuously elongated poses. In his drunken stupor, Lot gazes into his daughter’s eyes, their two faces in profile fusing into one another, while the two sisters gaze intently at the cup of wine, the source of their deceit.

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Julien Domercq, Label text (1971.43), 2020

NOTES

5/13/2020- Covid-19 closure; Online sprint devoted to European galleries; Julien wrote or re-wrote 9 European object labels and has asked Emily Schiller to try to make this content available online by 5/17/2020. As with most content on the online collection, this text has not been edited by Queta. This text is the original draft from Julien and will be edited for interpretation standards and routed as a wall label in Fall 2020.

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General Description

Following its emergence in Italy in the early 16th century, the Mannerist style travelled to France through a group of Italian artists employed by King Francis I (1494-1547) to decorate his palace at Fontainebleau. The disturbing biblical story of Lot and his two daughters, who, in an effort to preserve the family’s blood line after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, get their father drunk to trick him into impregnating them, was particularly suited to these artists’ quest for erotic subjects allowing them to depict sensuously elongated poses. In his drunken stupor, Lot gazes into his daughter’s eyes, their two faces in profile fusing into one another, while the two sisters gaze intently at the cup of wine, the source of their deceit.