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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Tower of Babel
Literature
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Tower of Babel
1563
114 x 155 cm
Oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Literature
Margaret D. Carroll,
Painting and Politics in Northern Europe
, University Park, Pa., 2008, fig. 101
Larry Silver,
Pieter Bruegel
, New York; London, 2011, fig. 215
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71B421
The building of the Tower of Babel; Nimrod may be present, supervising or assisting the construction
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Kunsthistorisches Museum
Accession number
Gemäldegalerie, 1026
Other works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Carnival and Lent
1559
Netherlandish Proverbs
1559
The blind leading the blind
1568
Dulle Griet
1561
Death of the Virgin
c. 1565