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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 ...
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 ...
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.
One well-known example is the prophet Tiresias, whose blindness is ascribed to various causes. According to one story, it was a punishment for revealing the secrets of the gods; according to another, he was struck blind after accidentally witnessing Athena bathing; in a third, he was blinded by Hera after taking Zeus's side in a dispute. [3]
One of his most successful paintings was The Blind Beggar. He painted the original in 1852 (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp) and made a reduced copy which is in the National Gallery, London. [4] The painting was extremely popular in the 19th century and was repeatedly copied after it had entered the National Gallery's collection. [13]
The Blind Girl (1856) is a painting by John Everett Millais which depicts two itinerant beggars, presumed to be sisters, one of whom is a blind musician, her concertina on her lap. They are resting by the roadside after a rainstorm , before travelling to the town of Winchelsea , visible in the background.
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.
Some examples include: The Miracle at Mont St Michel in the Luttrell Psalter, held in the British Library. [4] The image displays a barefoot blind man in a long pale yellow tunic carrying a staff. [1] Healing a blind man in the Maastricht Hours, held in the British Library. [5] The blind man wears a loose brown tunic while being led by a white ...