File:Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Tower of Babel (Vienna) - Google Art Project 2.jpg
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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Tower of Babel ![]() |
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painting ![]() |
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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 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (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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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 | Google Art Project: Home - pic Maximum resolution. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other versions | Category:The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Vienna) |
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