Semiramis building Babylon, Edgar Degas, 1860 / 1861

In the early 1860s, degas experimented with history paintings which never left his studio. One example is the semiramis building babylon which may have been an allusion to the radical redesign of paris being undertaken by baron haussmann. Object Type: painting. Genre: religious art. Date: 1860 / 1861. Dimensions: height: 151 cm (59.4 in) ; width: 258 cm (101.5 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: Semiramis. Collection: Musée d'Orsay. Semiramis building Babylon