The Tower of Babel by Bruegel the Elder

Thomas and I are doing a collaborative writing challenge where we each choose a painting for the other to write about. Thomas chose The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder for me to write about. You can read about the painting I chose for Thomas, Meindert Hobbema’s Wooden Landscape, on his website.According to Wikipedia, Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted the Tower of Babel three times. Of the three paintings, two remain. For this challenge, I am writing about the painting held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. While doing research, I also learned that Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s son, Pieter Bruegel the Younger, also painted the Tower of Babel. (The Younger painted copies of some of his father’s work.) In doing research, I found a record of sale of the Younger’s painting at Christies in 2022.Bruegel the Elder’s painting depicts The Tower of Babel being built, a building in Genesis 11:1-9. In the story of the Tower, a group of people aim to build a large tower in Babylon.…