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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 Tower of Babel was the subject of three paintings by Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The first, a miniature painted on ivory, was painted in 1552–1553 while Bruegel was in Rome, and is now lost.
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
The phrase "Tower of Babel" does not appear in Genesis nor elsewhere in the Bible; it is always "the city and the tower" [c] or just "the city". [d] The original derivation of the name Babel, which is the Hebrew name for Babylon, is uncertain.
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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