The Tower of Babel is a Diptych!
We, Zarathustra the Cat now present the original version of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s famous painting, which appeared to be a diptych. Here is the first part of it, further go details and the second part:
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel, 1565, diptych, part 1
The commonly known version of this painting is the pearl of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen collection in Rotterdam:
We, the time-traveling fat cat visited the painter when he began to work on the story of the Tower of Babel. Having cuddled and tickled and snuggled a lot his visitor Bruegel thought that the epic fail of humanity would never happen if it would be enough cats amongst humans: everybody would sink in cuteness and stop quarrels and cat lovers’ language should become common. And he started to paint:
Cats see deep into the future…
and watch small people under their paws…
kindly show themselves through a window to an excited audience
finish the construction playing
relax at the balcony
in order to help humans cats throw things from the top
they sleep in unexpected places and hunt you from unexpected places..
But having seen the original painting, art critics of the 16th century told to Bruegel: “Come on, Pieter, looks like you installed Cat Paint on your iPhone! It is not serious, don’t be a boy, you are the Elder! and moreover, it is blasphemy!”. Against his heart, Pieter Bruegel painted the cats over.
But in the silence of his atelier he painted another version of the tower, this a recipe for future generations on how to repair it and to unite the nations again:
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel, 1565, diptych, part 2
Now both parts of the Rotterdam diptych is united with the commonly known version in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen:
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel, diptych and commonly known version at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Don’t believe it? Go and check it!
Thus speaks Zarathustra the Cat
BTW, you also can have this diptych in your private museum:
BUY THE FIRST PART OF THE DIPYCH as a CANVAS PRINT or as a POSTER
BUY THE SECOND PART OF THE DIPYCH as a CANVAS PRINT or as a POSTER
