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Drunkenness of Noah

Giovanni Bellini

Giovanni Bellini was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters.

Max Resolution:1000×622 PX

Title:Drunkenness of Noah

Artists:Giovanni Bellini

Date:c.1515

Style:High Renaissance

Genre:religious painting

Medium:oil,canvas

Location:Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'archéologie de Besançon, Besançon, France

Dimensions:103×157 cm

Copyright:Public domain

Drunkenness of Noah is a painting by the Italian artist Giovanni Bellini. It was finished about 1515. It is kept in the Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology of Besançon, France.

Noah is sleeping naked. The Cup and the bunches of grapes (on the foreground), and the vineyard (in the back) suggests that Noah is drunk. These three sons are represented at his side. Shem and Japhet (left and right) avert their eyes and cover their father with a red cloth. But Ham, the third son, laughs when he see his father naked.

The work refers to Genesis 9:20–23