Power of Women
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The "Power of Women" is a medieval and Renaissance artistic and literary topos, showing "heroic or wise men dominated by women", presenting "an admonitory and often humorous inversion of the male-domi
Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530
15th-century aquamanile with Phyllis riding Aristotle
Jacopo Amigoni, Jael and Sisera, 1739
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, version in Florence, 1621
Lot (biblical person)
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Lot was a notable figure mentioned in the biblical Book of Genesis, chapters 11–14 and 19 and other scriptures. Important events in his life recorded in Genesis include his journey with his uncle Abra
Power of Women
…and genre images of wives dominating their husbands. The last group came to be called the battle for the trousers. Joseph and Potiphar's wife and Lot and his Daughters were somewhat late joiners to the group, but increasingly popular later on. Tomyris, the Scythian queen who defeated Cyrus the Great and abused his…
Lot and his Daughters leaving Sodom (1575) by Guido Reni
Albrecht Dürer, Lot and His Daughters, c. 1499 (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.). His wife is left as a pillar of salt on the road behind.
The Flight of Lot and His Family from Sodom (after Rubens), by Jacob Jordaens, c. 1620 (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo)
Lot and his daughter flee from Sodom, by Paolo Veronese, c. 1585 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)