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Images about Incest

5 images from works
  • Marsyas being flayed by Apollo; Juno (Hera) and Jupiter (Zeus); the rape of Oreithyia by Boreas. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
  • Drunkenly gazing at the chin of his daughter, Lot moves amorously towards her. Mezzotint by R. Dunkarton, 1787, after A. de Gelder.
  • Lot and his daughters find rest and begin to drink; Lot stares into one of his daughters' eyes. Engraving after A. Diepenbeeck.
  • Lot, drunk, rests back into the arms of one of his daughters; the other one pours him more wine; in the background his wife watches Sodom burn. Engraving by W. Kent after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino, 1630.
  • Amnon, son of David, simulates illness in order to attract his half sister Tamar, who is preparing a meal; in the corner a physician is examining a urine specimen. Line engraving after M. van Heemskerck.

Works from the collections

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    • Books

    Not talking about "it" : a history of incest in the United States, 1890-1940 / by Lynn Ann Sacco.

    Sacco, Lynn. | Date: [2001], ©2001
    • Books

    The sexual victimization of children / by Mary de Young.

    De Young, Mary, 1949- | Date: 1982
    • Pictures

    Lot and his daughters: one of the daughters carries a wine jug. Engraving by D. Cunego, 1771, after G. Reni.

    Reni, Guido, 1575-1642. | Date: 1771 | Reference: 2819176i
    • Books

    Perspectives on rape and sexual assault / June Hopkins (editor).

    | Date: 1984
    • Books
    • Online

    The life and death of John Atherton lord bishop of Waterford and Lysmore within the kingdome of Ireland, borne neare Bridgwater in Sommersetshire : Who for incest, buggery, and many other enormous crimes, after having lived a vicious life, dyed a shamefull death, and was on the fifth of December last past, hanged on the gallows greene at Dublin, and his man Iohn Childe being his proctor, with whom he had committed the buggery, was hangd in March following at Bandon Bridges, condemned thereunto at the assises holden at Corke.

    | Date: Printed, 1641
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Seduction
Lot
United States
Sigmund Freud
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Binge Drinking
Wine
Rape
Psychoanalysis
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