The Bible In Paintings, #8: THE TOWER OF BABEL

Bing Images | c. 2000 BC -- c. 90 AD | Father, Son & Holy Spirit

[Hebrews 11:6]

[Yes indeedy, boys and girls, I published #9 out-of-sequence just now,
so you get 2 for the price of 1 today!]

GENESIS 11:1-9 (NIV)

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

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Here is the Bing page "TOWER OF BABEL IN ART” showing various painters' conceptions. Several are serious works worthy of interest. Some examples:

by GUSTAV DORÉ

by ATHANASIUS KIRCHER

by an unknown artist

PALATINE CHAPEL MOSAIC

by PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER

by PIETER BRUEGEL THE YOUNGER

by PIETER BRUEGEL THE YOUNGER

byTOBIAS VERHAECHT

by PAUL GOSSELIN

by JOACHIM PATINIR

by MARTEN VAN VALCKENBORCH

by FREDERIK VAN VALCKENBORCH

by FREDERIK VAN VALCKENBORGH

by an unknown artist

by HENDRICK VAN CLEVE

by HENDRICK VAN CLEVE

by TOMISLAV TOMIC

by MICHAEL LASSEL

by CORNELIUS ANTHONISZ

NumisCollect Coin

by a whimsical artist

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Again, here is the Bing page "TOWER OF BABEL IN ART” with many more images.
Also, here are links to compendia of three masters who painted Biblical scenes prolifically:

REMBRANT van RIJN

GUSTAV DORÉ
(illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours)

JAMES TISSOT

Finally, here are links to the PREVIOUS POSTS IN THIS SERIES.

SNEAK PEEK: Next time, GOD CALLS ABRAM

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Does anyone on FR make bricks or know someone who does?

[Hebrews 11:6]

Yeah, pretty much daily....