Drunkenness of Noah (Bellini)
The drunkenness of Noah is a painting by Italian artist Giovanni Bellini and was completed around 1515. It is located in the Musée des Beaux -Arts et d' Archéologie ( Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology ) in Besançon, France.
Shaping
Noah sleeping naked. The cup and the grapes (in the foreground ) and the vineyard (in the background ) suggests that Noah is drunk. His three sons are represented at his side. Shem and Japheth ( left and right) turn away his eyes and cover their father with a red cloth. Cham, the third son, but laughs as he sees his father naked.
Origin
The work refers to Genesis 9.20 to 23:
20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, planted a vineyard. 21 And he drank of the wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside the tent. 22 And when Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward and covered their father's nakedness; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.