Gustave Doré 1832 – 1883
The Confusion of Tongues
engraving — 1865
This work is linked to Genesis 11:4
Art and the Bible - Genesis 11 - Old Testament
Genesis 11 1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick,
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Doré based his Tower of Babel on the minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra, in present day Iraq. The minaret is 52 m high and has a spiralling cone.
On the foreground: the people of the world, punished by the Confusion of the Tongues for their disobedience to God.
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