BabelStone Blog
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
72 More Views of the Tower of Babel
I have decided that my most popular blog post, 72 Views of the Tower of Babel, has far outgrown itself (well over a hundred and twenty images at last count), and in order to make the views of the Tower of Babel easier for me to manage, as well as hopefully more accessible to visitors, I am restricting the original page to medieval views, and putting post-medieval views on this page, and starting a new page for modern views.
I have also increased the size of the link images from thumbnail size to a maximum dimension of 360 pixels, which I think is a great improvement.
Paintings
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Oil painting by Pieter Bruegel (1525–1569) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria 1563 |
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Oil painting by Pieter Bruegel (1525–1569) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands circa 1563 |
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Oil painting by Hendrick van Cleve (1525–1589) |
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Oil painting by Hendrick van Cleve (1525–1589) J.A. Berg Collection, Stockholm University Art Collection, Stockholm, Sweden |
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Oil painting by Hendrick van Cleve (1525–1589) |
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Oil painting by Hendrick van Cleve (1525–1589) Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany |
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Oil painting by Hendrick van Cleve (1525–1589) Galerie de Jonckheere, Paris, France |
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Oil painting by Hendrick van Cleve (1525–1589) |
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Oil painting by Hendrick van Cleve (1525–1589) |
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Oil painting by Hendrick van Cleve (1525–1589) |
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Oil painting by Hendrick van Cleve (1525–1589) |
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Oil painting by Hendrick van Cleve (1525–1589) |
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Oil painting by Hendrick van Cleve (1525–1589) |
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Oil painting by Hendrick van Cleve (1525–1589) |
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Oil painting by Hendrick van Cleve (1525–1589) |
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Oil painting by Hendrick van Cleve (1525–1589) and Louis de Caullery (c.1555-c.1622) |
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Oil painting by Louis de Caullery (c.1555-c.1622) |
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Oil painting by Hans Bol (1534–1593) Museum voor Oudheidkunde en Sierkunst en Schone Kunsten, Kortrijk, Belgium |
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Illustration on a vase with Biblical Scenes, from the workshop of Orazio Fontana (fl.1565–1571) in Urbino, Italy Philadelphia Museum of Art (Gallery 250), Philadelphia, U.S.A. circa 1560–1571 |
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Oil painting attributed to the circle of Maerten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) Fortabat Art Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Oil painting by Maerten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) 1572 |
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Oil painting by Lucas van Valckenborch (1535–1597) Galerie de Jonckheere, Paris, France 1568 |
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Oil painting by Lucas van Valckenborch (1535–1597) The Louvre, Paris, France 1594 |
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Oil painting by Lucas van Valckenborch (1535–1597) Mittelrhein-Museum, Koblenz, Germany 1595 |
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Oil painting by Lucas van Valckenborch (1535–1597) Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany |
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Oil painting by Lucas van Valckenborch (1535–1597) Landesmuseum, Mainz, Germany 1595 |
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Oil painting by Marten van Valckenborch (1535–1612) National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba |
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Oil painting by Marten van Valckenborch (1535–1612) |
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Oil painting by Marten van Valckenborch (1535–1612) Towneley Hall, Burnley, England circa 1600 |
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Oil painting by Marten van Valckenborch (1535–1612) Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany [Dresden Gallery in Second Life] 1595 |
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Oil painting by Marten van Valckenborch (1535–1612) |
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Oil painting by Marten van Valckenborch (1535–1612) or Peter Balten (1525–1598) circa 1575 |
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Oil painting by Marten van Valkenborch (1535–1612) |
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Oil painting by Marten van Valkenborch (1535–1612) [on the back of a copperplate map] Museum of London, London, England 1559 |
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Oil painting by Frederik van Valckenborch (1566–1623) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria |
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Oil painting by Leandro Bassano (1557–1622) National Gallery, London, England after 1600 |
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Oil painting by Tobias Verhaecht (1561–1631) |
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Oil painting by Tobias Verhaecht (1561–1631) Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, England |
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Oil painting by Tobias Verhaecht (1561–1631) Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Netherlands |
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Oil painting by Joos de Momper (1564–1635) and Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601–1678) |
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Oil painting by Joos de Momper (1564–1635) and Frans Francken the Younger (1581–1642) Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium |
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Oil painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger (c.1564–1638) Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena, Italy |
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Oil painting by Abel Grimmer (1570–1619) |
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Oil painting by Abel Grimmer (1570–1619) |
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Oil painting by Abel Grimmer (1570–1619) circa 1604 |
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Oil painting by Abel Grimmer (1570–1619) |
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Oil painting by Abel Grimmer (1570–1619) Private Collection 1604 |
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Oil painting by Abel Grimmer (1570–1619) Galerie de Jonckheere, Paris, France |
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Oil painting by Frans Francken the Younger (1581–1642) Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain |
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Oil painting by Frans Francken the Younger (1581–1642) |
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Oil painting by Frans Francken the Younger (1581–1642) Hospital de Tavera, Toledo, Spain |
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Oil painting by "Monsù Desiderio", i.e. Didier Barra (1590–1644) or François de Nomé (1593–1630) or a third unknown artist Naples, Italy |
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Oil painting by an unknown artist Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany circa 1590 |
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Oil painting by an unknown artist Pinacoteca nazionale [N 534], Sienne, Italy Late 16th century |
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Oil painting by Anton Mozart (1573–1625) Staatliche Museen [Kupferstichkabinett, KD Z17904], Berlin, Germany circa 1610 |
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Oil painting by Jean Joubert (fl.1676–1706) The Louvre [INV 27257], Paris, France |
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Oil painting by an unknown artist 17th century |
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Part of a fresco by Mattia Bortoloni (1696–1750) at the Villa Cornaro, near Venice, Italy 1716 |
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Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) by Francesco Antonio Saverio Grue (1686–1746) Museum of Fine Art, Boston, U.S.A. circa 1735 |
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Fresco by (?) Johann Baptist Baader (1717–1780) on the ceiling of the Pfarrkirche St. Johann Baptist, Wessobrunn, Germany Non surrexit major ("It rose no further") 1759 (?) |
Engravings and Prints
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Engraving by Cornelis Anthonisz (circa. 1505–1553) Bibliothèque royale de Belgique Brussels Belgium 1547 |
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Woodcut illustration by Abraham Saur (1545–1593?) to his Theatrum Urbium Munich, 1610 |
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Engraving by Daniel Meisner, in Thesauras Philo. Politicus....Schatzkastlein page F68 1623 (also in Sciographica Cosmica (1642)) |
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Hand-coloured copper engraving by Matthäus Merian (1593–1650) in the Merian Bible Stuttgart, 1630 |
      
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Turris Babel (sive Archontologia qua primo priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque extructio, confusio linguarum ...) by Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680). Frontispiece drawn by Gérard de Lairesse (1640–1711) and engraved by Johannes Munniks (1652–1711). Other plates engraved by engraved by Coenraet Decker (1651–1685). *OCM+ 93-6948, New York Public Library, New York, U.S.A. 1. Turris Babel 2. Turris Babel 3. Coelum Lunae, or Data hypothesi quantum globus terrenus extra centrum emotus fuisset 4. Erat autem Ninive Civitas 5. Descriptio Turris Babylonicœ a Nino et Semiramide exstructa 6. Hæc ruet eversis nun qua Babilonia Muris, Stans memori quantum steterit Kircherius Orbi 7. Arx Babylonica à Semiramide, exstructa Amsterdam, 1679 |
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Copper engraving by C.J. Visscher for Theatrum Biblicum Hoc est historiae Sacrae published by his son, Nicolaum Johannis Piscatorum (N. Visscher) Amsterdam (?), 1674 |
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La géographie sacrée, et les monuments de l'histoire sainte by Joseph-Romain Joly (1715–1805). New York Public Library, New York, U.S.A. *YIX (Joly, J. R. Géographie sacrée) [opposite page 4] Paris (?), 1784 |
 
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Copper engravings by Allain Manesson Mallet (1630–1706) Figs. XCVIII and CI Paris, 1683 (reprinted Frankfurt, 1719) |
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Engraving by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656–1723) in Entwurff Einer Historischen Architectur Vienne, 1721 |
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Copper engraving by Gerard Hoet in Figures de la Bible Page 12 The Hague, 1728 |
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Copper engraving by L. A. Corvinus in J.J. Scheuchzer's Sacred Physics 1735 |
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Engraving by O. Lindeman of a "'Map of the World Known to the Ancient'" by Willem Albert Bachiene (1712–1783) Utrecht, 1761 |
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Mezzotint with etching by John Martin (1789–1854) The British Museum [PD Mm.10-6], London, England circa 1833 |
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Engraving by C. Maurino of a drawing by Gustave Doré (1832–1883) 1865–1866 |
See also :
- 72 Views of the Tower of Babel [2007-01-01]
- 72 Modern Views of the Tower of Babel [2009-01-01]
Index of BabelStone Blog Posts