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Johannes Jakob Hartmann was the most important landscape painter in Bohemia in the early eighteenth century. He updated themes found in Flemish art of the sixteenth-century for eighteenth-century audiences,
The present picture depicts the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 19:1-28), two cities which God razed to the ground because they failed to show hospitality to two angels sent by Him. In the background the city of Sodom is burning.
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