Drunkenness of Noah | |
Artist: | Giovanni Bellini |
Year: | about 1515 |
Medium: | Oil on canvas |
Height Metric: | 103 |
Width Metric: | 157 |
Metric Unit: | cm |
Imperial Unit: | in |
City: | Besançon |
Museum: | Musée des Beaux-Arts |
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 next to him, and the vineyard in the background, suggest that Noah is drunk. Three of his 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.
The work refers to Genesis 9:20–23