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The Parable of the Blind
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Globe
Beheading of the rhinoceros
Without title
Untitled
Without title
Without title
Indivisible quartet
Room for voices
Time, mistake, space
Without title
Yellow surface
River bed
A J L B
Without title
Checks. Tribute to Niepce
Amalfi box
Big Black Cretto
Basin
Without title
Shock wave
White gold room
Flagellation of Christ
Judith and Holofernes
Vesuvius
Portrait of Paul III with his grandchildren
Danae
Portrait of a young woman called Antea
The Parable of the Blind
Atalante by Ippomena
Transfiguration of Christ
Madonna and Child with Angels
Crib group with the Nativity
Sant'Agata
Portrait of fra luca Pacioli with a pupil
Hercules at the crossroads
Apollo and Marsyas
Saint Jerome in the study
From Frisio to Santa Lucia or Neapolitan song
Crucifixion
Madonna of the veil
Portrait of Pier Luigi Farnese in armor

The Parable of the Blind

Pieter Brueghel, detto il Vecchio

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Capodimonte Museum and Real Wood

Capodimonte Museum and Real Wood

Via Miano, 2, Naples

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In a pale and autumnal landscape a line of blind people walk slowly: a ditch awaits them into which they will fall without safety. The Gospel parable - when a blind man leads another, you see them both fall into the ditch - becomes for the great painter the pretext to represent a varied and derelict humanity, investigated with a caricatural detail in which each character assumes a expression conditioned by the position he occupies: tragically frightened the one who is falling into the ditch, dazed and unaware of his last in line. Masterpiece of the mature phase, the thin linen canvas is signed and dated 1568 in the lower left. In the background, in the distance, the church of the village of Pede de Saint - Anne, near Brussels, is depicted. The work has always been considered, together with the Misantropo, one of the masterpieces of the Farnese collection.
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Title: The Parable of the Blind

Author: Pieter Brueghel, detto il Vecchio

Date: 1568

Technique: Tempera on canvas

Displayed in: Capodimonte Museum and Real Wood

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