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This is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons (Featured pictures) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here. 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).
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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 ...
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Original – M. C. Escher's 1928 depiction of the biblical Tower of Babel Reason High quality copy of one of a famous artist's lesser-known works Articles in which this image appears Tower of Babel (M. C. Escher) FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Others Creator M. C. Escher
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.
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The Tower of Babel: 1563: Oil on panel: 114 × 155: Kunsthistorisches Museum: MS 16 The Tower of Babel: 1563–1565: Oil on panel: 59.9 × 74.6: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: MS 17 Landscape with the Flight into Egypt: 1563: Oil on panel: 37.1 × 55.6: Courtauld Institute Galleries: MS 18 Portrait of an Old Woman: 1563: Oil on panel: 22 × 18 ...