Lot and His Daughters

Jan Wellens de Cock created this work around 1523 during the High Renaissance period. The painting reflects the artistic traditions and cultural preoccupations of its time and place of origin. The painting is in the Detroit Institute of Arts. The High Renaissance codified an ideal of harmonious proportion and unified pictorial space that painters applied to both religious and secular subjects, satisfying the cultivated tastes of patrons who equated artistic excellence with humanist learning.

The painting demonstrates the technical conventions and artistic vocabulary of the period, with attention to composition, color, and the rendering of form appropriate to the subject.