The Blind Leading the Blind
Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1568
The story
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 Matthew 15:14, and is in the collection of the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy.
- Artist
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder
- Date
- 1568
- Collection
- Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
- Movement
- Early Netherlandish painting
- Medium
- tempera, canvas
- Size
- 86 × 154 cm
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