Pieter Bruegel (I)

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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: panel, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (landscape format) 59,9 x 74,6 cm

Current attribution: Pieter Bruegel (I)

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: c. 1568 (1562 - 1572)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: De bouw van de toren van Babel (Genesis 11:3-5)
English title: The building of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:3-5)
Keywords: Old Testament and Apocrypha, tower, architecture, harbor
Iconclass code Iconclass codes and text contain specific scenes and names. An Iconclass code or notation is a code from the multi-lingual Iconclass system for subject retrieval. For more information about this system, see www.iconclass.nl.: 71B421
the building of the Tower of Babel; Nimrod may be present, supervising or assisting the construction

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Daniël George van Beuningen, Rotterdam/Vierhouten (Nunspeet)
- 1958
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam , inv./cat.nr 2443
1958 -

Exhibitions and literature

Literature

Friedländer 1924-1937 , vol.12, no. 20
Rotterdam 1962 , p. 34
Rotterdam 1994 (Van Eyck to Bruegel) , p. 400-403
Sellink 2007 , p. 189, no. 125

S. Dominguez-Fuentes, 'Du nouveau sur "La Tour de Babel" de Bruegel l'Ancien au musée de Rotterdam', Revue de l'Art, no. 150 (2005) no. 4, p. 17-20
M.D. Carroll, Painting and politics in Northern Europe: 'The conceits of empire: Bruegel's "Ice-skating outside St. George's Gate in Antwerp" and "Tower of Babel"', University Park (Pennsylvania) 2008, p. 64-87
K. Jonckheere, 'An allegory of artistsic choice in times of trouble. Pieter Bruegel's Tower of Babel', Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art/Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 64 (2014), p. 186-213

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Rubenianum/digital collections (img.nr. 1001199339)
, Original location BD/RKD/0318 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 2 (img.nr. 0000054028)
, Original location BD/RKD/0318 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 2 (img.nr. 0000057186)
, Original location BD/RKD/0318 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 2 (img.nr. 0000054976)
, Original location BD/RKD/0318 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 2 (img.nr. 0000057187)
, Original location BD/RKD/0318 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 2 (img.nr. 0000057188)
, Original location BD/RKD/0318 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 2 (img.nr. 0000054027)
, Original location BD/RKD/0318 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 2 (img.nr. 0000054026)
, Original location BD/RKD/0318 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 2 (img.nr. 0000054023)
, Original location BD/RKD/0318 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 2 (img.nr. 0000054025)
, Original location BD/RKD/0318 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 2 (img.nr. 0000054024)
, Original location BD/RKD/0318 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 2 (img.nr. 0000054022)
, Original location BD/RKD/0318 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 2 (img.nr. 0000057189)
, Original location BD/RKD/0318 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 2 (img.nr. 0000057190)
, Original location BD/RKD/0318 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 2 (img.nr. 0000057191)
, Original location BD/RKD/0318 - ONS/Religion, Mythology, Allegory, History and Literature 2 (img.nr. 0000057185)

Project: Dutch Public Collections Project
Rubenianum

Technical documentation

The RKD manages a collection of technical documentation that has been given to us by external researchers and museums or which stems from the RKD's own research with infrared reflectography. Documentation can be accessed by appointment at the RKD. While not all technical documentation has been entered in the database at present, new data is added on a regular basis.

4 hits in RKD technical, relating to:

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paint sample A337/1-3 1 hits
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Research and restoration projects

study Bijvak Methoden en technieken van materieel onderzoek van kunstvoorwerpen, 1997 1 hitsinvolved_persons: J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer
Bijvak dat werd gegeven door prof. dr. J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RuG) van 19xx tot ca. 1997. Het vak werd gevolgd door studenten van zowel de RuG als andere, meestal Nederlandse, universiteiten. Studenten werden onderwezen in het materiaaltechnisch onderzoek van kunstvoorwerpen (veelal schilderijen, in verschillende Nederlandse musea) met behulp van diverse onderzoekstechnieken, met name infraroodreflectografie. De student sloot het bijvak af met het zogenaamde ‘bijvakverslag’.

Externe links: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen online collectie

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Entered on: 1999-11-19; Last modification: 2018-09-07

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