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. Breugel 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.
Specifications
Title | The Tower of Babel |
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Material and technique | Oil on panel |
Object type |
Painting
> Painting
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Width 74,6 cm Height 59,9 cm |
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Artists |
Painter:
Pieter Bruegel (I)
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Accession number | 2443 (OK) |
Credits | Acquired with the collection of D.G. Van Beuningen, 1958 |
Department | Old Masters |
Acquisition date | 1958 |
Creation date | in circa 1568 |
Collector | Collector / D.G. van Beuningen |
Internal exhibitions |
Van Eyck tot Bruegel (1994) The Collection Enriched (2011) De collectie als tijdmachine (2017) BABEL - Oude meesters terug uit Japan / Old Masters Back from Japan (2018) Lievelingen (2024) |
External exhibitions |
Nederlandsche Kunst van de XVde en XVIde eeuw (1945) Bruegel, een dynastie van schilders (1980) Collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen – Bruegel’s ‘The Tower of Babel’ and Great 16th Century Masters (2017) Dutch Heritage - Focustentoonstelling Toren van Babel (2022) Bruegel (2018) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen @ Rijksmuseum (2023) |
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Geographical origin | Southern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
All about the artist
Pieter Bruegel (I)
Brueghel circa 1526/1530 - Brussel 1569
Pieter Bruegel was born around 1525, probably in or near Breda. From 1551 he worked in Antwerp, at the time one of the most important cities in Western Europe....
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