The "Little" version of this painting was painted the same year and unlike the original is not currently in Vienna, where approximately 1/3 of the artist's extant works are housed.
The "Little" version of this painting was painted the same year and unlike the original is not currently in Vienna, where approximately 1/3 of the artist's extant works are housed. The various small huts seen throughout are representative of the numerous guilds present in the artist's home city. Among the elevating devices seen on the right side is a black crane, believed to be the earliest artistic depiction of such an apparatus. Of the several thousand people seen, the most clearly identifiable are in the front left foreground, which shows an architect kneeling before a group led by King Nimrod. However, the focus is on the immense, crumbling titular central structure. Believed to be representative of the building boom and cosmopolitan nature of the artist's native mid-16th century Antwerp, FTP, name this painting by Pieter Bruegel depicting a biblical structure that reached for heaven.
The "Little" version of this painting was painted the same year and unlike the original is not currently in Vienna, where approximately 1/3 of the artist's extant works are housed.
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