The Tower of Babel

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Tower of Babel

The Tower of Babel

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Pieter Bruegel, the Elder
Artistic evolution and affinities of Pieter Bruegel, the Elder
…in the two paintings of The Tower of Babel (one 1563, the other undated). The Rotterdam Tower of Babel illustrates yet another characteristic of Bruegel’s art, an obsessive interest in rendering movement. It was a problem with which he constantly experimented. In the Rotterdam painting, movement is imparted to an…
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…in the two paintings of The Tower of Babel (one 1563, the other undated). The Rotterdam Tower of Babel illustrates yet another characteristic of Bruegel’s art, an obsessive interest in rendering movement. It was a problem with which he constantly experimented. In the Rotterdam painting, movement is imparted to an…
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