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Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Tower of Babel  wikidata:Q15293656 reasonator:Q15293656
Artist
Pieter Brueghel the Elder  (1526/1530–1569)  wikidata:Q43270 s:nl:Hoofdportaal:Beeldende kunst/Schilderkunst/België/16e eeuw/Pieter Bruegel (I) q:et:Pieter Bruegel vanem
 
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Alternative names
Pieter Breugel, Pieter Breughel, Pieter Brueghel, Peasant Brueghel
Description Flemish painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death between 1526 and 1530
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1526-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1530-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
 9 September 1569 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Breugel or Breda City of Brussels Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Antwerp (1551–1563), Italy (1553), City of Brussels (1563–1569)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q43270
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Title
Series title The Tower of Babel Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
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.
Depicted people Nimrod Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1563
date QS:P571,+1563-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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
institution QS:P195,Q95569
Current location
Gemäldegalerie, 1st floor, room X
Accession number
GG_1026
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

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), 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: transferred to the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Exhibition history
Inscriptions

Signature and date bottom left:

·BRVEGEL·FE· / ·M·CCCCC·LXIII
On a building block
References

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Bilddatenbank, as Turmbau zu Babel.

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

Web Gallery of Art, as The Tower of Babel.
Source/Photographer Unknown sourceUnknown source
Other versions Category:The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Vienna)

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