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Building of the Tower of Babel

In Flavius Josephus, Flauij Josephi ... Historien vnd Bücher: von alten jüdischen Geschichten, Conrad Lautenbach (translator), Strasbourg: Theodosius Rihel (printer), 1574 (Munich, BSB), fol. 6v

fol. 6v (7 of 24 in-Urus figures)

Details

Matrices

Christoffel (I) van Sichem (printmaker attr.), Building of the Tower of Babel (Rihel)

Actors

Christoffel (I) van Sichem (ca 1546 - 20 October 1624) printmaker attr.
Theodosius Rihel (1526 - 1608) printer : 1574

Places

Strasbourg production place : 1574

Design

Christoffel (I) van Sichem (printmaker attr.), Building of the Tower of Babel (Rihel) Part of Set for Flavius Josephus's Historien (Rihel) ◼

Expert view

Iconography description

Building of the Tower of Babel (Iconclass: 71B421)

Inscriptions, Markings and Mentions

Matrix inscriptions

CVS

References

Web resources

digital copy (MDZ)

Credits

Created by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-11-27 18:17)

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-11-30 17:14)