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Tower of Babel, by Lucas van Valckenborch, 1594, Louvre Museum. The Jewish-Roman historian Flavius Josephus, in his Antiquities of the Jews (c. 94 CE), recounted history as found in the Hebrew Bible and mentioned the Tower of Babel. He wrote that it was Nimrod who had the tower built and that Nimrod was a tyrant who tried to turn the people ...
Some later (non-biblical) traditions, interpreting the story of Jacob's dream in the Bible (Genesis 28:11–19), identified Nimrod as the ruler who had commissioned the construction of the Tower of Babel or of Jacob's Ladder, and that identification led to his reputation as a king who had been rebellious against God.
The genealogies continue until the Deluge and Tower of Babel in 2,348 B.C., and after depicting Noah's flood as described in Genesis (indicated by a black line), the chart splits into two, with the upper portion continuing the biblical genealogy and the lower showing the division into nations supposedly after the confusion of tongues at the ...
Turris Babel (The Tower of Babel) was a 1679 work by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher.It was the last of his books published during his lifetime. Together with his earlier work Arca Noë (Noah's Ark), it represents Kircher's endeavour to show how modern science supported the Biblical narrative in the Book of Genesis.
The paintings depict the construction of the Tower of Babel, which, according to the Book of Genesis in the Bible, was built by a unified, monolingual humanity as a mark of their achievement and to prevent their dispersion: "Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ...
According to some scholars, the piece can be divided into four sections separated by tempo markings, though conductor Robert Craft often described the piece as "a passacaglia in which a fugue serves as one of the variations". Babel follows a neoclassical structure and form, and is a good example of Stravinsky's late neoclassical period. [5]
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.
This image has been assessed under the valued image criteria and is considered the most valued image on Commons within the scope The Tower of Babel, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Vienna version). See its nomination here .