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Thursday, 1 January 2009

72 Modern Views of the Tower of Babel

My original 72 views of the Tower of Babel concentrated on medieval and early pre-modern views of the tower, but over the last couple of years I have found some really good modern interpretations of the Tower of Babel, which I think deserve a page of their own. Although at present there are only half the number of modern views suggested by the nominal figure of 72 in the title, I am sure that the number will grow by the time I update the post next New Year's Day.

Image	Description
	Drawings by Erich Kettelhut (1893–1979) for Fritz Lang's film Metropolis (1927) Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin Germany 1926–1927
	Woodcut print by M.C. Escher (1898–1972) 1928
	Cover to the Communications of the ACM January 1961
	Lithograph by Shalom of Safed (1887–1980)
	Tempera on paper by Shalom of Safed (1887–1980) 1963
	Painting by Salvador Dali (1904–1989) 1963–1964
	Woodcut with stencil color by Sadao Watanabe (1913–1996) Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts San Fransisco, U.S.A. 1965
	Lithograph by David Sharir (1938-) 1975
	Ink on paper by Edward Tabachnik (1936-) 1995
	Oil on canvas by Edward Tabachnik (1936-) 1995
	Acrylic on canvas by John Newcomb 1996
	Art print by Tamas Galambos (1939-)
	Painting by Jean Thomassen (1949-)
	Oil on canvas by Kazuya Akimoto circa 2000
	Raytracing by Anders Sandberg 2000
	Oil on canvas by Roberto González Fernández (1948-) 2000
	Danil Dovgoborets (1987-)
	Acrylic on canvas by Charles Jos Biviano (1957-)
	Oil on canvas by Michael Lassel 2001
	Illustration by Frank Wu for the story "The Tower" by M. L. Ching, in Darkling Plain 2001
	Lego model by Brendan Powell Smith (1973-) circa 2001
	Print by Mila Judge-Fürstová (1975-) 2001-2002
	10 New Sheqel gold coin (also available in silver 1 and 2 NIS denominations) Israel 2002
	Photographic collage by Julee Holcombe (1972-) 2004
	Sand sculpture at Putuoshan 普陀山 in China 2005
	Book sculpture by Anne-Maree Hunter (1965-) 2006
	Oil on canvas by Jennifer Cross 2006
	Oil and acrylics by Andreas Zielenkiewicz (1957-) 2006
	Mark Mallett 2007
	Model made from laser cut museum board by Joel Stoehr 2007
	Drawing by Rorke 2008
	Painting by tiZumzz 2008
	Marker pens on paper by Amborama and Hardcore-Cupcake 2008