Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569)
The Tower of Babel
c.1568
Oil on panel, 59.9 x 74.6 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
In this famous painting Bruegel depicts the biblical story of man’s hubris and their desire to build a tower that reached to the heavens. God punished them with a Babelonian confusion of tongues. Countless people are flocking around the structure, which reaches
to the clouds. Bruegel took inspiration for the architecture of his tower from the Colosseum in Rome. In the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is another painting by Bruegel with the same subject. (Boijmans)
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Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569)
The Tower of Babel
1563
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna