The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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Renaissance painting oil painting

"The Tower of Babel" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder is a renowned 16th-century painting depicting the biblical story of humanity’s attempt to build a colossal tower to heaven, rendered with Bruegel’s characteristic detail and social commentary.

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Label	Occurrences
The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder canonical	2
The Tower of Babel (Bruegel painting, Rotterdam)	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Renaissance painting ⓘ oil painting ⓘ oil painting ⓘ
artworkStyle	crowded narrative composition ⓘ detailed panoramic landscape ⓘ
basedOn	Book of Genesis ⓘ The Tower of Babel ⓘ surface form: Tower of Babel
catalogCode	GG 1026 (Kunsthistorisches Museum inventory number) ⓘ
collection	Kunsthistorisches Museum picture gallery ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Habsburg Netherlands ⓘ
creator	Pieter Bruegel the Elder ⓘ
depicts	King Nimrod ⓘ clouds surrounding tower ⓘ colossal tower ⓘ construction site ⓘ harbor city ⓘ scaffolding ⓘ stone masonry ⓘ workers ⓘ
describedBySource	Kunsthistorisches Museum catalogue ⓘ art history literature ⓘ
genre	history painting ⓘ religious painting ⓘ
hasPart	distant landscape ⓘ foreground figures ⓘ ships in harbor ⓘ spiral tower structure ⓘ
hasSmallerVersion	The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: The Tower of Babel (Bruegel painting, Rotterdam)
inception	1563 ⓘ
influenced	later depictions of the Tower of Babel in art ⓘ
influencedBy	biblical exegesis of Genesis 11 ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Dutch ⓘ
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Vienna ⓘ
locatedInTheCountry	Austria ⓘ
location	Kunsthistorisches Museum ⓘ Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen ⓘ
mainSubject	The Tower of Babel ⓘ surface form: Tower of Babel divine punishment ⓘ human pride ⓘ
materialUsed	oil paint ⓘ wood panel ⓘ
movement	Northern Renaissance ⓘ
notableWorkOf	Pieter Bruegel the Elder ⓘ
partOf	Bruegel’s biblical paintings ⓘ
theme	critique of human hubris ⓘ fragility of human endeavors ⓘ social commentary ⓘ
title	The Tower of Babel ⓘ surface form: De Toren van Babel The Tower of Babel ⓘ

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Kunsthistorisches Museum → significantWork → The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder ⓘ

The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder → hasSmallerVersion → The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder self-linksurface differs ⓘ

subject surface form: The Tower of Babel (Bruegel painting, Vienna)

this entity surface form: The Tower of Babel (Bruegel painting, Rotterdam)

KHM → hasNotableWork → The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder ⓘ