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The Tower of Babel
The Old Testament tells the story of the people of Babel who wanted to build a tower that would reach to heaven. God punished them for their pride: he confused their common language so they could no longer understand one another. This is one of the earliest painted depictions of this story; it also affords a fairly reliable glimpse of late medieval building practices.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/71B421
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1490
- 1490
Place-Time
- fourth quarter 15th century
Places
- Bruges
- Brugge
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.5895
Provenance
- …; from the dealer Nicolaas Beets, Amsterdam, fl. 4,500, to the museum, January 1921; on loan to the Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1924-97; on loan to the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, since 2003
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.9416
- SK-A-2851
Extent
- height 20.5 cm
- width 17.9 cm
Format
- panel
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1490
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:14:48.227Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:40.936Z