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Summary
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | religious art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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, 1
st
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 1662
date 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
Unknown date
: transferred to the Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Vienna
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Exhibition history | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions |
Signature and date bottom left:
·BRVEGEL·FE· / ·M·CCCCC·LXIII
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References |
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Bilddatenbank
, as
Turmbau zu Babel
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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 Unknown source | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other versions | Category:The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Vienna) |
Licensing
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derivative works
Derivative works of this file: No-tower-of-babel.jpg
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