Tag: Babel

The Building of the Tower of Babel (c.1595)

Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) The Building of the Tower of Babel c.1595 Oil on panel, 43.2 x 42.9 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Attributed to Peter Brueghel the Younger, this small panel, from the collections of the Palace of…

The Tower of Babel (c.1568)

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…

The Tower of Babel (1563)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Tower of Babel 1563 Oil on oak, 114.4 × 155.5 × 3.8 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Designated at the bottom of a cuboid: BRVEGEL. FE. M.CCCCC.LXIII Bruegel’s monumental composition became the most famous, most often…

Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (Brussels)

Founded: 1803 Address: Rue de la Régence 3, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium Website: https://www.fine-arts-museum.be/fr Collection: • Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (c.1558) • Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): The Adoration of the Kings (c.1556) • Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): The Census…