Six blind men, linked by their staffs, stumble along a village path. The leader has already toppled into a ditch and the rest seem bound to follow. Bruegel painted Christ's parable from Matthew 15:14 the year before his death, in thin, glue-based paint on linen, and the falling diagonal turns a proverb into a slow collapse.
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Each man's eyes show a different condition, painted precisely enough for doctors to identify them. The church behind is that of Sint-Anna-Pede, near Brussels.
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