File:Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Tower of Babel (Rotterdam) - Google Art Project.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file ‎(4,945 × 3,973 pixels, file size: 7.78 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Tower of Babel  wikidata:Q15295671 reasonator:Q15295671
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
Work location
Antwerp (1551–1563), Italy (1553), City of Brussels (1563–1569)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q43270
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The building of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:3-5) Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"The building of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:3-5) Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"The building of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:3-5) Edit this at Wikidata"
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"
Part of The Tower of Babel Edit this at Wikidata
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
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.
Date circa  Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil and wood Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 59.9 cm (23.5 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 74.6 cm (29.3 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+59.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+74.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q679527
Accession number
2443 (OK)
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 1955
date 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
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.

The collection enriched, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 16 April 2011–30 April 2013, no catalogue.
Inscriptions

verso:

ELISABETH DEI GRATIA HISPANIARUM REGINA
References
Source/Photographer hQEuBFxb3ZEcLw — Google Arts & Culture
Other versions
 Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Tower of Babel (Rotterdam) - Google Art Project - edited.jpg
File:Bruegel d. Ä., Pieter - Tower of Babel - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam.jpg
Version from collection.boijmans.nl
File:Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The "Little" Tower of Babel - WGA03432.jpg
Version from www.wga.hu

Licensing

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

The Tower of Babel

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current12:37, 17 October 2012Thumbnail for version as of 12:37, 17 October 20124,945 × 3,973 (7.78 MB)DcoetzeeBot=={{int:filedesc}}== {{Google Art Project |commons_artist={{Creator:Pieter Bruegel (I)}} |commons_title= |commons_description= |commons_date= |commons_medium= |commons_dimensions= |commons_institution= |commons_location= |commons_references= |commons_o...

Global file usage

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Tower_of_Babel_(Rotterdam)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg"