Carlo Pellicani (after Carlo Buzzi)
The Tower of Babel

1807-13
Marble
West façade, Milan Cathedral

As with many of the panels on the west façade, this one is just a bare, literal rendering of the consequences of God's "confusion of tongues" at Babel (Genesis 11:1-9).

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Photographed at the cathedral by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.