File:Pieter Bruegel Toren van babel groot.jpg
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Summary
Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Tower of Babel
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on oak wood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 114 cm (44.8 in); width: 155 cm (61 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
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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: Nicolaas Jongelinck or Nicolaes Jonghelinck (1517–1570), Antwerp
1566 (?): ownership transferred to the City of Antwerp |
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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 source | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other versions | Category:The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Vienna) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
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| current | 14:27, 18 February 2005 | | 1,061 × 800 (196 KB) | Fabos~commonswiki | Pieter Bruegel, Toren van Babel, grote versie, afkomstig van webmuseum openbare bron (nl:) |
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