TORREDE BABEL

Heródoto | História 1.98-99

The Medes built the city now called Ecbatana [lit. «the place of gathering»], the walls of which are of great size and strength, rising in circles one within the other. The plan of the place is, that each of the walls should out-top the one beyond it by the battlements. The nature of the ground, which is a gentle hill, favors this arrangements in some degree but it is mainly effected by art. The number of the circles is seven, the royal palace and the treasuries standing within the last. The circuit of the outer wall is very nearly the same with that of Athens. On this wall the battlements are white, of the next black, of the third scarlet, of the fourth blue, the fifth orange; all these colors with paint. The last two have their battlements coated respectively with silver and gold.

Pieter BRUEGEL, o Velho | Torre de Babel

Sebastian Brant | A Nave dos Loucos, 1494

Tarot | 16. A Torre

Tarot de Jean Noblet | 16. La Maison Dieu

New York ! Tiwn Towers, 11 Set. 2001

New York ! Tiwn Towers, 11 Set. 2001

New York ! Tiwn Towers, 11 Set. 2001

New York | Ground 0

Jan van Eyck | Santa Bárbara, 1437

Armas de Portugal