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Collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Bruegel’s ‘The Tower of Babel’ and Great 16th Century Masters

18 July - 15 October 2017

Collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Bruegel’s ‘The Tower of Babel’ and Great 16th Century Masters

Exhibition: 18 July - 15 October 2017

The National Museum of Art in Osaka will host the exhibition, “Collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Bruegel’s ‘The Tower of Babel’”. Featured in the exhibition besides Pieter Bruegel, as announced by its subtitle— “Great 16th Century Masters,” will be two oil paintings by Bruegel’s forerunner and artistic model, Hieronymus Bosch, along with numerous paintings, prints, and sculptures of the 16th-century Netherlands of their day, some 90 works in total.

We invite you to experience the wealth and wonder of 16th-century Dutch art through oil paintings rendered in glowing colors with remarkable realism, print works abounding with monstrous Bosch motifs, and superlative wood sculptures.

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