Brueghel and Rublyov meeting the blind -- The blind leading the blind - or ”the order of the world” Cover Image

Brueghel és Rubljov találkozása a vakokkal -- Vak vezet világtalant, avagy a "világ sora"
Brueghel and Rublyov meeting the blind -- The blind leading the blind - or ”the order of the world”

Author(s): Béla Nóvé
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: EX Symposion Alapítvány
Keywords: Brueghel and Rublyov meeting the blind; Brueghel; Rublyov; grotesque allegorical tempera picture; Naples Gallery; end of the Middle Ages; human fallibility

Summary/Abstract: Studying the varied semantic world of the string patterns of human group formations we could not find a better artistic example than what its creator himself meant to be a ”speech in pictures”, a parable addressing the sighted -- although through this it reveals the constat of our inherent blindness… It is the supposedly last masterpiece of the elder Brueghel titled The Blind, a gently grotesque allegorical tempera picture in the collection of the Naples Gallery. One of the most beautiful examples of symbolic string patterns is the realist vision from the end of the Middle Ages, which condenses the prevailing case of human fallibility --”the order of the world” -- into an odd formation of half a dozen blind beggars.

  • Issue Year: 2000
  • Issue No: 30-31
  • Page Range: 92-98
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Hungarian