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Summary
Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Tower of Babel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Series title | The Tower of Babel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | religious art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | oil and wood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 59.9 cm (23.5 in) ; width: 74.6 cm (29.3 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) (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) |
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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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References |
RKDimages, Art-work number 26043, as De bouw van de toren van Babel (Genesis 11:4), circa 1563 date QS:P,+1563-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 (1558-1568), height: 60 cm (23.6 in); width: 74.5 cm (29.3 in)dimensions QS:P2048,60U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,74.5U174728
Web Gallery of Art, as The "Little" Tower of Babel, circa 1564date QS:P,+1564-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 , height: 60 cm (23.6 in); width: 75 cm (29.5 in)dimensions QS:P2048,60U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,75U174728 .arttube |
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Source/Photographer | Levels adjusted from File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Tower_of_Babel_(Vienna)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg, originally from Google Art Project. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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