The Tower of Babel, 1563

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Oil paint

An impossible spiralling ziggurat swallows a city at its base.

Bruegel imagines the biblical tower as a vast spiralling ziggurat, crawling with tiny workers and already cracking under its own ambition. The obsessive detail and doomed grandeur make it an unforgettable meditation on pride, labour and human overreach.

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