Angels and men beat each other with clubs atop this location in a scene from the Bedford Hours. A lightning flash illuminates this location in the background of a painting in which a crowd flees near a golden statue covered by a serpent. A “Little” painting of this location in Rotterdam shows more curved walls than a “Great” version in the Kunsthistorisches (“KOONST-hist-OR-ish-iss”) Museum. Those two paintings were preceded by a lost ivory miniature that may have provided the basis for a painting of this location by Lucas van Valckenborch. A man raises his arms in front of a depiction of this location based on the minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra in a Gustave Doré engraving. Hieronymous Cock’s prints of the Colosseum inspired a painting of this location whose foreground depicts stonemasons bowing to a king. For 10 points, Pieter Brueghel the Elder created two paintings of what unfinished biblical structure? ■END■
ANSWER: Tower of Babel [or Tower of Babylon; or Mīgdal Bāḇel; or Toren van Babel; prompt on tower or mīgdal] (The painting in the second sentence is Belshazzar’s Feast by John Martin.)
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