ID: 700009617 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009617	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

La parabola dei ciechi (painting (visual work); Pieter Bruegel the Elder; 1568; Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte (Naples, Napoli pr...)

Note: Train of blind men led by a blind leader, who has fallen. In the background are perhaps depicted the village of Sint-Anna-Pede and Sint-Anna Church.

Titles:

La parabola dei ciechi (preferred,C,U,RP,Italian-P,U,U)

Blind Leading the Blind, The (C,U,English-P,U,P)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1568

Creator Display:

Pieter Bruegel the Elder [preferred]

painter Brueghel, Pieter the Elder (Flemish painter, ca. 1525-1569) [500013247]

Locations:

Current: Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte (Naples, Napoli province, Campania, Italy) [500303443] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Display Materials: Distemper on linen canvas

	distemper (water-base paint) [300015035]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

	linen (material) [300014069]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by composition or origin>)

Dimensions: 86 cm × 154 cm (34 in × 61 in)

Cultures:

Netherlandish (preferred)

General Subject:

allegory (preferred)

religion and mythology

Specific Subjects:

	Blind Leading the Blind [901002139]
	.....((Christian allegory, symbolism, theme, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Outside Iconography:

Code: 31A41111 Term: Blind leading the blind

Inscriptions: Signature: Bruegel M.D. LXVIII

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Additional Notes:

Italian ..... Il pesante passo del cieco, poi la caduta vissuta come un peccato, la cecità come punizione divina per l’allontanamento dalla casa di Dio, la Chiesa sullo sfondo della tela; la fede con note più acute rivolte al cielo come il capo dei viandanti ciechi; lo sforzo umano per continuare il proprio cammino verso la fede.

Sources and Contributors:
La parabola dei ciechi	........ [VP]
	........ Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte [online] (2000-)
Blind Leading the Blind, The	........ [VP]
	........ Janson, History of Art (1971)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Janson, History of Art (1971)
Italian	..... [VP]
	..... Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte [online] (2000-)