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This chapter makes a broader claim for a consistent spiritual outlook by the artist, one which can be considered collectively as a kind of pictorial exegesis. In short, Pieter Bruegel clearly contrasts Old Testament kingship with the advent of a new age of peace under Christ in the Gospels. Bruegel's fullest representation of armies shows a battlefield conflict in another, smaller panel, The Suicide of Saul . Bruegel's other major Old Testament painting, his 1563 Tower of Babel (Vienna), again presents the Old Testament gathering of might and power under the despotic leadership of a king. This painting emphasizes the town and port in the lower right corner, opposite the figure of Nimrod, thus evoking connotations of the same passage in Revelation (18:19), where merchants and shipmasters bewail the fall of Babylon and the vengeance of God against her sin and wealth. Keywords: Babylon; Nimrod; Old Testament kingship; Pieter Bruegel; The Suicide of Saul; Tower of Babel
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