Northern Renaissance · 1563
Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525–1569
Kunsthistorisches Museum · Vienna
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Before you stands one of the most haunting paintings of the sixteenth century. Bruegel completed this in 1563; it hangs in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum. This is no hymn to ambition — a meditation on our oldest folly.
The tower erupts like a wound into resisting clouds.
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