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Bruegel, Tower of Babel
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Bruegel, Tower of Babel
[music] We're in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and we're looking at Bruegel's amazing painting, "The Tower of Babel."
I really love this painting.
Me too!
It's just, there's so much to look at, and it reminds you that before movies, before video, paintings could be incredibly entertaining.
And here's an image that gives us so many little narratives, so many things to look at.
It really does reward close, prolonged looking.
So this story comes from the Bible.
Man decided to build a building that would be so high, it would reach into the heavens; it would reach God.
And God didn't like that.
No, not one bit.
So the way that God took care of this was sort of wonderful and elegant.
Humanity had been one people up to this time.
But God said now He would divide man by language, so that when these men could no longer communicate with each other, well, the building couldn't be built.
But Bruegel is painting this now in the Renaissance, and there's a different set of meanings.
Yes, the Bible is the underlying story; but there's the politics of his era.
When we think about the Renaissance, it's hard not to think about the massive building campaigns.
Bruegel himself is living in Antwerp, an incredibly wealthy city that trades in luxury goods.
So in some ways, this is about the dangers of man's success.
All the things that we build, all the things that we create, all of the power and wealth that we have is really nothing before God.
I think Bruegel makes that point rather nicely in the lower left corner of the painting, where you see a king, who is presumably the man who's ordering the building of this monument, and you see the workers who are actually carving stone, but also bowing down to him.
There's a kind of irony there, because as the workers bow down to him, we know that this tower that they're building at his request is going to utterly fail; and in fact, it is failing right before our eyes, and before theirs, if only they would notice it too.
You mean, even as it's being built, it's so large that it's also falling apart.
In fact, the whole tower, although it seems so massive and so solid, is leaning to the left slightly, and it seems to be almost menacing the medieval city that's just beyond it.
There are some places where it seems very unfinished;
I mean, if we look at the center, there's uncut block; and then in other areas it looks completed; in other areas there's scaffolding.
There's this sense that it's rising and falling simultaneously.
You know, the whole thing really looks believable.
You see winches, and cranes - hoists - And sort of the basic construct itself seems to be loosely based on the Coliseum in Rome, which Brugel would have seen when he visited that city.
And so, the whole thing really does seem as if it's possible, and there is this sense that here in the Renaissance, man has become so capable.
And what are the dangers of that?
I mean, it is an issue that even in the modern era, we still grapple with.
If you read science fiction, it's always the robots and the computers that are the threat, right?
And in a sense, this is an older take on technologies that were perhaps too big for us.
Men look like ants, everywhere, here!
You get a sense of trade, you have a sense of materials coming from afar in the ships on the extreme right; you see a large castle, but it's completely dwarfed by the massiveness of the tower itself.
There's a total sense of futility here.
Everyone is doing something.
Everyone is building or carrying or carving or climbing or doing something to make this happen.
And yet, as they're so busy, we know that it's all for naught.
And so, there's a sense of the complete futility of human endeavor.
And even while we know that futility is central, there's still an absolute love of the investigation of the building itself.
We really have Bruegel the architect here.
The tower is so fun.
We want to go into it.
We can see through it, and into the arches and spaces, and windows; and we want to know what it's like inside.
It's a dreamlike space that is incredibly seductive.
So in a sense, it's a kind of entrapment.
Bruegel is giving us this wonderful, seductive environment, and then he's telling you, "You don't want to do this.
This isn't all right."
It seduces us and entraps us, and it's really difficult to pull your eyes away from it. [music]
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[music] We're in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and we're looking at Bruegel's amazing painting, "The Tower of Babel."발음듣기
대기중
It's just, there's so much to look at, and it reminds you that before movies, before video, paintings could be incredibly entertaining.발음듣기
대기중
Man decided to build a building that would be so high, it would reach into the heavens; it would reach God.발음듣기
대기중
But God said now He would divide man by language, so that when these men could no longer communicate with each other, well, the building couldn't be built.발음듣기
대기중
But Bruegel is painting this now in the Renaissance, and there's a different set of meanings.발음듣기
대기중
When we think about the Renaissance, it's hard not to think about the massive building campaigns.발음듣기
대기중
Bruegel himself is living in Antwerp, an incredibly wealthy city that trades in luxury goods.발음듣기
대기중
All the things that we build, all the things that we create, all of the power and wealth that we have is really nothing before God.발음듣기
대기중
I think Bruegel makes that point rather nicely in the lower left corner of the painting, where you see a king, who is presumably the man who's ordering the building of this monument, and you see the workers who are actually carving stone, but also bowing down to him.발음듣기
대기중
There's a kind of irony there, because as the workers bow down to him, we know that this tower that they're building at his request is going to utterly fail; and in fact, it is failing right before our eyes, and before theirs, if only they would notice it too.발음듣기
대기중
In fact, the whole tower, although it seems so massive and so solid, is leaning to the left slightly, and it seems to be almost menacing the medieval city that's just beyond it.발음듣기
대기중
I mean, if we look at the center, there's uncut block; and then in other areas it looks completed; in other areas there's scaffolding.발음듣기
대기중
You see winches, and cranes - hoists - And sort of the basic construct itself seems to be loosely based on the Coliseum in Rome, which Brugel would have seen when he visited that city.발음듣기
대기중
And so, the whole thing really does seem as if it's possible, and there is this sense that here in the Renaissance, man has become so capable.발음듣기
대기중
If you read science fiction, it's always the robots and the computers that are the threat, right?발음듣기
대기중
You get a sense of trade, you have a sense of materials coming from afar in the ships on the extreme right; you see a large castle, but it's completely dwarfed by the massiveness of the tower itself.발음듣기
대기중
Everyone is building or carrying or carving or climbing or doing something to make this happen.발음듣기
대기중
And even while we know that futility is central, there's still an absolute love of the investigation of the building itself.발음듣기
대기중
We can see through it, and into the arches and spaces, and windows; and we want to know what it's like inside.발음듣기
대기중
Bruegel is giving us this wonderful, seductive environment, and then he's telling you, "You don't want to do this.발음듣기
대기중
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