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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)
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artist QS:P170,Q43270
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Title
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 1563-1565
Medium oil on panelmedium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 59.9 cm (23.5 in); width: 74.6 cm (29.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,59.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,74.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q679527
Current location
room 06
Accession number
2443 (OK)
Place of creation City of Brussels
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.
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verso:

ELISABETH DEI GRATIA HISPANIARUM REGINA
References Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen collection online, as The tower of Babel, circa 1565
date QS:P,+1565-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
, height: 59.9 cm (23.5 in); width: 74.6 cm (29.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,59.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,74.6U174728
.
RKDimages, Art-work number 26043, as De bouw van de toren van Babel (Genesis 11:4), circa 1563
date QS:P,+1563-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(1558-1568), height: 60 cm (23.6 in); width: 74.5 cm (29.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,60U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,74.5U174728
Web Gallery of Art, as The "Little" Tower of Babel, circa 1564
date QS:P,+1564-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
, height: 60 cm (23.6 in); width: 75 cm (29.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,60U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,75U174728
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 Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Tower of Babel (Rotterdam) - Google Art Project - edited.png
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Version from Google Cultural Institution
File:Bruegel d. Ä., Pieter - Tower of Babel - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam.jpg
Version from collection.boijmans.nl


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