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The painting depicts an impoverished blind beggar singing in the street to the music of his hurdy-gurdy, an instrument traditionally associated with street singers.The hurdy-gurdy, portrayed in great detail in de la Tour's canvas, works by means of a hand turned wheel rubbing against a set of strings, whose pitch can be adjusted by hand operated wedges.
Attempts have been made to interpret the picture of five disabled people and a beggar-woman as an allusion to a historical event: the badger's tails, or foxes' tails, on their clothes might refer to the Gueux, a rebel party formed against the government of Philip II of Spain and Granvelle; but these also occur in Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent in Vienna, dated 1559.
Tío Paquete is an oil painting from around 1819–1820 by the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya. It is currently in the collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [1] in Madrid. Tío Paquete was a contemporary figure, an old blind beggar well known to Madrileños in the early 19th century. He would sit on the steps of the church of San Felipe ...
In each of these stories, a blind beggar hears that Jesus is passing by, and cries out "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me". The crowd rebukes the beggar, but Jesus calls him forward and heals him with a word, or by touching his eyes. [13] In another story in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus heals a blind man of Bethsaida by rubbing spittle into ...
Old Jewish Man with a Boy or Blind Beggar with a Boy is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, from 1903. It was made in Barcelona , Spain , and characteristic of his Blue Period . [ 1 ] Picasso later moved to Paris, where he sold the work to Sergei Shchukin , whose collection was seized by the Soviet state after the October Revolution ...
In 1871, the painting was welcomed into the rooms of the new town hall converted into a museum. In the Catalogue of paintings exhibited in the gallery of the museum of Bergues written by the painter and restorer Pierre-Antoine Verlinde (1801–1877), the Beggar playing the hurdy-gurdy, under number 97, is attributed to José de Ribera. It is ...
David shows us a fallen hero, old and blind, begging in the street with a young child when one of his former soldiers, astonished, recognises him. Belisarius Begging for Alms, 1784, 101 × 115 cm, Louvre. The setting is Antique: sober, austere and overwhelming architecture is placed behind the depiction of harsh conditions.
Dyckmans was a master in the refined art of painting which represented each reflection, wrinkle, hair, leaf of a tree etc. He paid painstaking attention to the details of body, clothing and environment. At the same time, he aimed to represent the emotional state of the persons represented. One of his most successful paintings was The Blind Beggar.