Pieter Bruegel (the Elder; 1525 – 1569) was the most significant Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting artist. He is a painter known for his landscapes and peasant scenes.

He significantly influenced the Dutch Golden Age painting with his innovative choices of the subject matter. He was one of the first generations of artists to grow up when religious subjects had ceased to be the dominant subject matter of painting.

All his most famous paintings come from the decade before his early death when he was in his early forties and at the height of his artistic powers.

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The Tower of Babel is a Near Eastern origination story recorded in Genesis. It is meant to explain the origin of different languages.

According to the story, united humanity that had developed after the Great Flood and speaking a single language agreed to build a city and a tower “tall enough to reach heaven.”

“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’…” (Genesis 11:4).

This arrogance angered God, and he confused their speech so that they could no longer understand each other and scattered them around the world.