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The Blind Leading the Blind, Blind, or The Parable of the Blind (Dutch: De parabel der blinden) 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 (34 in × 61 in).
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Europeans of Bruegel's time gave little regard to beggars, and the painting provides hints that Bruegel shared this denigration: the figures are outside the town walls and are posed in such ways as to provoke contempt and amusement. The foxtail on some of the figures was a symbol at the time of ridicule in political caricature and real life ...
Pieter Brueghel the Elder was a Flemish painter (born c. 1525–1530, died 1569), [5] famous for pictures of peasant life. This book opens with the title cycle of ten poems (the last poem is in three parts), each based on a Brueghel painting. [2]
In the same year, Bruegel painted Netherlandish Proverbs, also modelled on a print by Hogenberg. The following year he produced Children's Games. These three works are closely related, each forming a catalogue of folk customs. The works mark the transition of Bruegel from draughtsman to the painter of grand panels for which he is now known. [3]
He explains, "Bruegel totally humanizes the spiritual nature of this religious subject matter...Little things catch your eye, like the tower of a church, the thatched hut, birds and horses." [2] Larry Silver of the University of Pennsylvania suggests a parallel between the significance of the painting and the meaning of the parable. He writes ...
Copy by Pieter Brueghel II sold in July 2014 by Sotheby's London for £3.4 million. Of the 127 documented copies in 2000, Ertz lists 45 as by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, 51 doubtful, and 31 rejected-but-notable, and all of these were created in the 17th century. [2] Pieter Brueghel the Younger's dated copies range between 1601 and 1626. [12]
David Teniers the Younger, The Painter and His Family, c. 1645, now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. The Brueghel family (/ ˈ b r ɔɪ ɡ əl / BROY-gəl, [1] [2] US also / ˈ b r uː ɡ əl / BROO-gəl, [3] [4] Dutch: [ˈbrøːɣəl] ⓘ), also spelled Bruegel or Breughel, is an extended family of Dutch and Flemish painters which played a major role in the development of the art in Brabant ...