The Blind Leading the Blind
The Blind Leading the Blind, Blind, or The Parable of the Blind is a painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, completed in 1568. It depicts the Biblical parable. of the blind leading the blind from the Gospel of Matthew 15: 14, and is in the collection of the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy. It is considered a masterwork for its accurate detail and composition.
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The Blind Leading the Blind, Blind, or The Parable of the Blind is a painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, completed in 1568. Executed in distemper on linen canvas, it measures 86 cm × 154 cm. It depicts the Biblical parable. of the blind leading the blind from the Gospel of Matthew 15: 14, and is in the collection of the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy. It is considered a masterwork for its accurate detail and composition. The work has inspired literature such as poetry by Charles Baudelaire and William Carlos Williams, and a novel by Gert Hofmann. It has a bitter, sorrowful tone, which may be related to the establishment of the Council of Troubles in 1567 by the government of the Spanish Netherlands. The placement of Sint-Anna Church has led to both pro- and anti-Catholic interpretations, though it is not clear that the painting was meant as a political statement. The painting depicts a procession of six blind, disfigured men. They pass along a path bordered by a river on one side and a village with a church on the other. The leader of the group has fallen on his back into a ditch and, because they are all linked by their staffs, seems about to drag his companions down with him. The faces and bodies of theblind men, and background detail including the church, are rendered in exceptionally fine detail. The backward-falling posture of the guide demonstrates Brue gel’s mastery of foreshortening.
The colour scheme of the painting is achieved through a pigments in pigments through a grain of grain of the linen canvas is visible beneath the delicate brushstrokes of the canvas. The largest version of the work is signed BRVEEL MVEEL D LX VIII and is signed and dated 1568 BRVEGEL DVEEL LX VIII. The Blind Leading Blind is in good condition and has suffered no more than erosion, such as of a herdsman and some fowlman in the middle of the middle ground in the painting. It was painted the year before his death and is considered to be one of the best paintings of the 1568-1570 period by the Dutch artist. It depicts a group of blind men who are well dressed, rather than wearing the peasant clothing that typifies his late work. The first blind man’s face is not visible; the second twists his head as he falls, perhaps to avoid landing face-first. The shinguard-clad third man, on his toes with knees bent and face to the sky, shares a staff with the second, by which he is being pulled down. The others have yet to stumble, but the same fate seems implied. The work is a tüchlein, a type of light painting that uses tempera made from pigment mixed with water-soluble glue. This medium was widely used in painting and manuscript illumination before the advent of oil paint.
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