• Marten van Valckenborch or Marten van Valckenborch the Elder (1535 in Leuven – 1612 in Frankfurt), was a Flemish Renaissance painter...
  • Story of babel goes like this in Book of Genesis: People with one language and similar mentality coming from east sets out a quest to build a tower so high...
  • Felsige Küstenlandschaft, am Strande Fischhändler und Boote by Marten van Valckenborch.
  • Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Creator/Marten van Valckenborch.
  • Edit attribution Download full size: 1001×710 px (0,2 Mb) Painter: Marten van Valckenborch.
  • The early biographer Karel van Mander reported that Marten van Valckenborch learned to paint landscapes in Mechelen, which was known at the time as a center...
  • In its complicated, multi-shell construction, the gigantic tower is reminiscent of two famous Tower of Babel paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, without whose...
  • The subject of "The Tower of Babel" can be viewed as the leitmotif of Dutch Mannerist landscape painting.
  • Marten van Valckenborch comes from a family of Netherlandish landscape and genre painters, of whom he and his brother Lucas (ca 1535 – 1597)...