Abel Grimmer – Construction of the Tower of Babel c1610
Abel Grimmer – The Tower of Babel c1605
Abel Grimmer – The Tower of Babel c1605
Anonymous Dutch painter- Tower of Babel 15th C
Unknown engraver
Anton Mozart – Construction of the Tower of Babel c1600
Athanasius Kircher – Turris Babel 1679
Bedford Book of Hours, c. 1423
Charles Gussin, La Construction de la Tour de Babel, 1690,
Cornelis Anthonisz – The Fall of the Tower of Babel c1595
Dutch school – Tower of Babel (17th century)
Frans Francken – Construction of the Tower of Babel c1620
Frans Francken – Construction of the Tower of Babel c1630
Gillis van Valckenborch – Tower of Babel 1568
Hendrick Van Cleve – Tower of Babel 16thC
Hendrick Van Cleve – Tower of Babel 16thC
The Tower of Babel forms the focus of a story told in the Book of Genesis of the Bible. According to the story, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar. The Tower of Babel has often been associated with known structures, notably the Etemenanki, a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk by Nabopolassar, king of Babylonia (c. 610 BC)-The Great Ziggurat of Babylon base was square (not round), 91 metres (300 ft) in height, and demolished by Alexander the Great. A Sumerian story with some similar elements is told in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta. The narrative of the city of Babel is recorded in Genesis 11:1-9. Everyone on earth spoke the same language. As people migrated from the east, they settled in the land of Shinar. People there sought to make bricks and build a city and a tower with its top in the sky, to make a name for themselves, so that they not be scattered over the world. God came down to look at the city and tower, and remarked that as one people with one language, nothing that they sought would be out of their reach. God went down and confounded their speech, so that they could not understand each other, and scattered them over the face of the earth, and they stopped building the city. Thus the city was called Babel.
Jacob Grimmer – Construction of the Tower of Babel 16th C
Jan Christiaensz Micker c1620
Johann Baptist Baaderon the ceiling of the Pfarrkirche St. Johann Baptist, Wessobrunn, Germany. c1780
Joos de Momper – Turmbau zu Babel c 1595
L. A. Corvinus in J.J. Scheuchzer’s Sacred Physics 1735
Lodewyk Toeput – Turmbau zu Babel c 1585
Lucas van Valckenborch – Tower of Babel 1594
Lucas van Valckenborch (Attributed to) c1595
Lucas van Valkenborch – Construction of the Tower of Babel c1590
Maarten van Heemskerck c1530
Marten van Valckenborch – Construction of the Tower of Babel c1595
Marten van Valckenborch – Construction of the Tower of Babel c1600
Marten van Valckenborch – Tower of Babel.1600
Marten van Valckenborch the Elder – – Tower of Babel 1595
La Torre de era una significativa edificación rescatada por el imaginario judeocristiano, que fue construida por los hombres en tiempos inmemoriales y que f se puede identificar con el histórico zigurat Etemenanki de la antigua ciudad de Babilonia. Este edificio, en cuya cúspide estaba la Esagila -templo dedicado a Marduk-, originalmente tenía siete pisos de altura y más de 91 metros, pero pocos de sus restos permanecen en la actualidad.La Torre de Babel no solo es una edificación clave en la tradición judeocristiana y mencionada en el antiguo Testamento, sino también pertenece al ideario universal y su historia ha trascendido generaciones. Pero la leyenda de la torre reposa sobre una realidad, pues existía en efecto en Babilonia una construcción de varios pisos y de origen desconocido, que era ya restaurada en tiempos de Nabopolasar (625-605 AC), fundador de la dinastía caldea. Inclusive, esta construcción se llamaba Etemenanki, que puede ser interpretado como “la mansión de lo alto entre el cielo y la tierra”, concordando con las principales interpretaciones del capítulo 11 del Génesis que afirman sobre la construcción de la torre, que los hombres pretendían alcanzar el Cielo. Una inscripción que data del tiempo de Nabopolasar señala: “Marduk (el gran dios de Babilonia) me ha ordenado colocar sólidamente las bases de la Etemenanki hasta alcanzar el mundo subterráneo y hacer de este modo que su cúspide llegue hasta el cielo”. En otra inscripción, de los tiempos de Nabucodonosor, se precisa que la decoración de la cúspide estaba hecha de “ladrillos de esmalte azul brillante, es decir, adornada del color del cielo, perfectamente adaptado para dar la impresión de que el edificio se perdía en el azul infinito.
Meister der Weltenchronik German Late Medieval – Construction of the Tower of Babel c. 1370
Monsu Desiderio – The Tower of Babel c1620
Peter Brueghel The Elder- The Small Tower of Babel, 1563
Peter Brueghel The Elder- The Tower of Babel, 1563
Peter Brueghel the younger – Tower of babel c1595
Pieter Brueghel the Younger – Construction of the Tower of Babel c1620
Pieter Schoubroeck – Construction of the Tower of Babel c1600
The Confusion of Tongues by Gustave Doré (1865)
Tobias Verhaecht – The Tower of Babel c1610
Tobias Verhaecht – The Tower of Babel c1620
Unknown Artist
Unknown artist – The Tower of Babel
Unknown Master, German (active at the end of 16th century in Nuremberg)
Michel Koven The Tower of Babel 2014
Michel Koven Babel 2012
John Martin The Fall of Babylon, 1831
Du Zhenjun, Europa, C-Print, 2010
http://arttattler.com/archivebabylon.html