Four Blind Peasants and The Blind Leading the Blind, 1500s Flemish Paintings

[Beringia]

Good analogy for the followers of Trump




Cornelius Metsys, Parable of the Blind Men, engraving 1550





Bruegel the Elder, The Blind Leading the Blind, 1568

[The Blue Flower]

1. Straight off a cliff

They've sold their values, consciences, emotions, souls to a charlatan. Lost, every one of them.

[left-of-center2012]

2. Thanks for posting

I bookmarked it as I would like to look up more information on the painting.

[Beringia]

3. Here is a good article on Bruegel, which covers the Blind leading Blind painting

https://jhna.org/articles/peasant-nestrobber-bruegel-witness-of-his-times/


Peasant and Nestrobber: Bruegel as Witness of His Times - Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art

Bruegel’s Blind Leading the Blind, signed “BRUEGEL M.D.LXVlll,” is a large painting (86 x 156 cm) and one of his few works on canvas to survive (fig. 7). In this case, the issue is invoked by the text on which it is based. “If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch” (Matthew 15:14 and Luke 6:41) is the quintessential biblical image of being misguided and losing your way. The phrase was also proverbial. In Erasmus’s Adages, “Caecus caeco dux (the blind leading the blind)” is explained as a warning against foolishly following the advice of an imprudent man. Erasmus gives the proverb in Latin and Greek adding that it is an “adage to which the Gospel text has given a wider circulation.”

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4. Very interesting. Thanks. N/T