File:Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Tower of Babel (Rotterdam) - Google Art Project.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 |
label QS:Lit,"Torre di Babele"
label QS:Lfr,"La Tour de Babel"
label QS:Lnn,"Babels tårn"
label QS:Lnb,"Babels tårn"
label QS:Lnl,"De Toren van Babel"
label QS:Lcy,"Tŵr Babel"
label QS:Llv,""Mazais" Bābeles tornis"
label QS:Len-gb,"The Tower of Babel"
label QS:Lhy,"Բաբելոնյան աշտարակ"
label QS:Lde,"Kleiner Turmbau zu Babel" |
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Part of |
The Tower of Babel ![]() |
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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 |
Bruegel painted three versions of the Tower of Babel. One is kept in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the second in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (see Category:The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder), while the location of the third version (a miniature on ivory) is unknown. |
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Date |
circa ![]() |
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Medium |
oil and wood ![]() |
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Dimensions |
height: 59.9 cm (23.5 in) ![]() ![]() dimensions QS:P2048,+59.9U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+74.6U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q679527 |
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Accession number |
2443 (OK) |
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Object history |
by 1604 date QS:P,+1604-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1604-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552-1612) (?)
by 1724/1746: Elisabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain (1692-1766) (?) by 1955date QS:P,+1955-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1955-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Daniël George van Beuningen (1877-1955), Vierhouten
1958: bequeathed to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, by Daniël George van Beuningen, Vierhouten |
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Exhibition history |
Van Eyck to Bruegel, 1400-1550. Dutch and Flemish painting in the collection of the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1994, ISBN 9789069181370. |
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Inscriptions |
ELISABETH DEI GRATIA HISPANIARUM REGINA
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Source/Photographer | hQEuBFxb3ZEcLw — Google Arts & Culture | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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- File:Bruegel d. Ä., Pieter - Tower of Babel - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam.jpg
- File:Cover of Gorgorod.jpg
- File:Kleiner Turmbau zu Babel - Bauhuette 1.jpg
- File:Kleiner Turmbau zu Babel - Torbauwerk an der Basis.jpg
- File:Kleiner Turmbau zu Babel - Vorgelagerte Insel.jpg
- File:Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The "Little" Tower of Babel (detail) - WGA03433.jpg
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- File:Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Tower of Babel (Rotterdam) - Google Art Project.jpg
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- File:The Tower of Babel 2443 .jpg
- File:Turmprozession 2.jpg
- File:WLANL - thedogg - Toren van Babel, Bruegel (circa 1565).jpg
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