Maarten van Valckenborch (1534-1612),

• Was a Flemish Renaissance painter.
• He is mainly known for his landscapes and city scapes.
• He made also allegorical paintings and some portraits.
• After commencing his career in the Spanish Netherlands, he later migrated to Frankfurt in Germany.
• In Frankfurt he and other members of his extended family of artists played an important role in local artistic developments.
• Marten van Valckenborch regularly returned to the subject of the Tower of Babel, which was also depicted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and later by a whole range of Flemish artists.
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