A Torre de Babel (The Tower of Babel) - Anônimo
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The subject of the Tower of Babel is from Genesis (11:1-9)
and recounts how the people, who all spoke a common language, decided to build
a tower, the top of which would reach to the heavens. As punishment for their
hubris, God confused the people’s language so that they could no longer
understand one another, and scattered them over the face of the earth. The
story provided a rich source of subject matter for Flemish artists in the 16th
and 17th centuries whose depictions were inspired by the two iconic
representations by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum ,
dated 1563; and Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van
Beuningen, circa 1565). The present example, filled
with abundant detail, appears to be by a Flemish artist working in the
second half of the 17th Century.
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