Brueghel the Elder, Pieter – The Tower of Babel
At the top, the freshly laid bricks are still red, but at the base of the tower, the stones are already weathered and have taken on the color of the surrounding environment.as a symbol of the madness and arrogant ambitions of humanity. (Genesis 11:1–9) The story of the Tower of Babel is said to explain the existence of different languages and peoples. The Bible says that humanity originally spoke one and the same language, but when the Babylonians tried to build a tower that reached into heaven, God disrupted the pretentious project by causing the workers to speak many different language…
