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[edit]Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Tower of Babel
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q43270 |
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Title | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Series title |
The Tower of Babel ![]() |
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Object type |
painting ![]() |
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Genre |
religious art ![]() |
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Description |
The Tower of Babel. Bruegel painted three versions of the Tower of Babel. One is kept in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam (see Category:The Tower of Babel (Rotterdam)), the second in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, while the location of the third version (a miniature on ivory) is unknown. |
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Depicted people |
Nimrod ![]() |
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Date |
1563 date QS:P571,+1563-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | oil on oak wood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 114 cm (44.8 in); width: 155 cm (61 in) dimensions QS:P2048,114U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,155U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q95569 |
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Current location |
Gemäldegalerie, 1st floor, room X |
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Accession number |
GG_1026 |
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Place of creation | Antwerp (?) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history |
by 1566 date QS:P,+1566-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1566-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Nicolaas Jongelinck or Nicolaes Jonghelinck (1517–1570), Antwerp
1566 (?): ownership transferred to the City of Antwerp date QS:P,+1604-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1604-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552-1612), Prague
by 1662date QS:P,+1662-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1662-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1614–1662), Vienna
Unknown date: transferred to the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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Inscriptions |
Signature and date bottom left: ·BRVEGEL·FE· / ·M·CCCCC·LXIII
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References |
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Bilddatenbank, as Turmbau zu Babel. RKDimages, Art-work number 241870, as The building of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:4) Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 00075573, as Der Turm zu Babel Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 20183975, as Turmbau zu Babel |
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Source/Photographer | Unknown sourceUnknown source | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other versions | Category:The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Vienna) |
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