The Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel is the subject of three oil paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The first, a miniature painted on ivory, was painted while Bruegel was in Rome and is now lost. The Tower of Babel is on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Another painting of the same subject [url=https://www.wikiart.org/en/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/the-little-tower-of-babel-1563">The "Little" Tower of Babel, c. 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.
