The Family of Lot Leaving Sodom c. 17th century

Editor: Here we have Justus de Gelder's "The Family of Lot Leaving Sodom." It's a delicate drawing with spare lines, and the figures seem poised between urgency and resignation. What catches your eye in this piece? Curator: Ah, it's more than just an escape, isn't it? The angel, pulling them forward, a reluctant Lot... do you see how their gazes seem fixed behind them, yearning? It whispers of the struggle between faith and earthly attachment, wouldn't you say? Perhaps a warning against looking back at our own metaphorical Sodoms. Editor: That's a beautiful way to put it. I hadn't considered the yearning. Curator: Art is like that, isn't it? It reflects us in ways we never expect.