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By 1659 only five panels are listed in the Vienna inventory of the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (1614–62). Only towards the end of the decade did he switch to make painting his main medium, and all his famous paintings come from the following period of little more than a decade before his early death, when he was probably in his early forties, and at the height of his powers.
As well as looking forwards, his art reinvigorates medieval subjects such as marginal drolleries of ordinary life in illuminated manuscripts, and the calendar scenes of agricultural labours set in landscape backgrounds, and puts these on a much larger scale than before, and in the expensive medium of oil painting.
What is unusual about his religious work is the setting: the landscape and figures in many of his works are Flemish, not Middle Eastern, and Saul's conversion takes place in the Alps – most likely a remnant of Bruegel's most recent trip to Italy.
Bruegel was probably born in the village of Brogel (also: Breugel or Brugel) in the Kempen.
The foundation and bottom layers of the tower had not been completed before the higher layers were constructed.
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The Rotterdam painting is about half the size of the Vienna one.
1520 - 1569
South-Netherlandish painter and father of Jan Bruegel. However, this reversal can be taken to excess; although Bruegel moved in highly educated humanist circles, it seems "he had not mastered Latin", and had others add the Latin captions in some of his drawings.
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Breda was already a significant centre as the base of the House of Orange-Nassau, with a population of some 8,000, although 90% of the 1300 houses were destroyed in a fire in 1534.
He was apprenticed early in his life to painter Pieter Croecke van Aelst, and in 1551 around the age of 26 he was accepted into a painter’s guild in Antwerp as a master painter. From 1559, he dropped the 'h' from his name and signed his paintings as Bruegel; his relatives continued to use "Brueghel" or "Breughel".
The two main early sources for Bruegel's biography are Lodovico Guicciardini's account of the Low Countries (1567) and Karel van Mander's 1604 Schilder-boeck.
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- c.1525; Breda, Netherlands
- September 9, 1569; Brussels, Belgium
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Pieter Brueghel the Elder was an innovative Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker, known for his sweeping landscapes and peasant scenes.
The Tower of Babel is on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. He also created some of the earliest form of social commentary in his paintings, and reportedly asked while laying on his deathbed to have the most subversive of the paintings burned, in order for his family to avoid political persecution.
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The Tower was also symbolic of the religious turmoil between the Catholic church (which at the time conducted all services in Latin) and the polyglot Protestant religion that was increasingly popular in the Netherlands. For the development of his style, the landscapes he paints on the way are of greater significance than the impressions Italy makes on him.
It is not known if by that date Haymaking had already left the Imperial Collections, nor is it known when the Lobkowicz family acquired it, though it is first recorded as in their possession in 1870.
The painting is now part of the Lobkowicz family collection, located in the Lobkowicz Palace in Prague Castle, within the Czech Republic.
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In Vienna the tower rises at the edge of a large city, but the Rotterdam tower is in open countryside.
The paintings depict the construction of the Tower of Babel, which, according to the Book of Genesis in the Bible, was built by a unified, monolingual humanity as a mark of their achievement and to prevent them from scattering: "Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'" (Genesis 11:4).
Bruegel's depiction of the architecture of the tower, with its numerous arches and other examples of Roman engineering, is deliberately reminiscent of the Roman Colosseum, which Christians of the time saw as a symbol of both hubris and persecution.
This picture was originally part of a series of six panels, each presumed to represent two months of the year – in this case June and July.
In 1594 all six panels were given by the city of Antwerp to Archduke Ernst, Governor of the Netherlands. 1563, is in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
Bruegel's depiction of the architecture of the tower, with its numerous arches and other examples of Roman engineering, is deliberately reminiscent of the Roman Colosseum, which Christians of the time saw as both a symbol of hubris and persecution.
The Tower of Babel was the subject of three paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
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The Hay Harvest (also known as Haymaking), is an oil on wood painting created by Pieter Bruegel (c.
As a pioneer in Netherlandish genre painting, he portrayed social aspects of 16th century life, many of which were paintings of peasants, with a large landscape element. Guicciardini recorded that Bruegel was born in Breda, but van Mander specified that Bruegel was born in a village near Breda called "Brueghel", which does not fit any known place.
He also painted no portraits, the other mainstay of Netherlandish art. Bruegel had visited Rome in 1552–1553.