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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Tower of Babel (Vienna)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder ca. 1520 – 1569

The Tower of Babel (Vienna)

oil on panel (114 × 155 cm) — 1563
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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This work is linked to Genesis 11:4

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This is the oldest and largest of the two remaining copies of Pieter Bruegel's Tower of Babel. The other one is in Rotterdam.

Oak panel.

More information on the Tower of Babel can be found in this article.

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