The Tower of Babel

      My primary source for my notable individual is a painting called "the Tower of Babel" by Pieter Bruegel. The reason why i chose this painting by Bruegel is because i thought landscape paintings were one of his strongest points and this painting also includes architecture. Bruegel did have many deep, meaningful grisailles but i wanted to do something more fun and colorful.
      The Tower of Babel consists of three different paintings but all of the tower. In the first picture on the right, you see "The Tower of Babel" this was Bruegel's first painting of the three. The Tower of Babel was said by the Bible (Book of Genesis) to be a tower built to unify people. "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)

The Little Tower of Babel

This shows its value to the religious aspect of the painting. Also, if you look closely on the bottom left-hand corner you will notice something going on. I do not know for sure but it looks to me as if peasants are bowing down to wealthy patrons. This is a very renaissance element shown in the painting.
      Bruegel also did two other paintings of the Tower of Babel. However the one shown on the right was named as "The Little Tower of Babel". The Little Tower of Bruegel shows the tower except more developed. It also has different landscape pictures and does not include people. The Tower of Babel's architecture has many roman based elements. (columns, arches, etc.)