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The Beggars

Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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The Beggars or The Cripples is an oil-on-panel by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in It is now in the Louvre, in Paris.

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Its also is the only painting by Bruegel in the Louvre, received as a gift in

History

Attempts have been made to interpret the picture of five disabled people and a beggar-woman as an allusion to a historical event: the badger's tails, or foxes' tails, on their clothes might refer to the Gueux, a rebel party formed against the government of Philip II of Spain and Granvelle; but these also occur in Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent in Vienna, dated Still, the beggars are not quite ordinary beggars, as they wear carnival headgear representing various classes of society: a cardboard crown (the king), a paper shako (the soldier), a beret (the bourgeois), a cap (the peasant), and a mitre (the bishop).

The work clearly has some satirical meaning, which has so far eluded interpretation. Perhaps physical imperfections are meant to symbolise moral decrepitude, which can affect all men irrespective of class.[1]

On the back of the painting are two inscriptions which seem to date from the 16th century.

One is in Flemish, and in a very fragmentary state;[2] the other is in Latin and records the admiration some humanist felt for Bruegel, whose art surpasses Nature itself.[3]

The painting dates from the end of Bruegel's career, when he showed a keener interest in the natural world. Tiny though it is, the landscape seen through the opening is bathed in a delicate light which simmers like dew on the foliage.

Pieter bruegel the elder proverbs Most surviving drawings are finished designs for prints, or landscape drawings that are fairly finished. Italy was at the end of its High Renaissance of arts and culture, when artists such as Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci painted their masterpieces. Using the Bible to interpret this painting, the six blind men are symbols of the blindness of mankind in pursuing earthly goals instead of focusing on Christ's teachings. Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia.

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On the back of the painting is written:

What nature lacks, is lacking in our art,
So great was the grace accorded to our painter.
Here nature, expressed in painted forms, is astonished
To see through these cripples that Bruegel is her equal.

Analysis

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Pieter bruegel the elder wiki roblox Tools Tools. Archived from the original on 19 October The painting prominently depicts crows sitting in the denuded trees and a magpie flies in the upper centre of the scene. Categories : s births deaths Flemish painters Dutch painters.

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Modern eyes may be inclined to conclude that Brugel intended to invoke sympathy for the plight of the disabled figures, but from a historical perspective this is unlikely. Europeans of Bruegel's time gave little regard to beggars, and the painting provides hints that Bruegel shared this denigration: the figures are outside the town walls and are posed in such ways as to provoke contempt and amusement.

The foxtail on some of the figures was a symbol at the time of ridicule in political caricature and real life. The woman behind them bears an empty bowl and may appear to be ignoring the beggars.

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References

  1. ^V.

    Pieter bruegel the elder wiki Princeton: Princeton University Press, p. Several adults and a child prepare food preparing to singe a pig at an inn with an outside fire. Bruegel adapted and made more natural the world landscape style, which shows small figures in an imaginary panoramic landscape seen from an elevated viewpoint that includes mountains and lowlands, water, and buildings. The Catholic Church viewed Protestantism and its destructive iconoclasm of art as a threat to the Church.

    Barker, Pieter Bruegel the elder: A study of his paintings, Arts Publishing Corp. (); see also W. S. Gibson, Bruegel, Thames & Hudson Ltd ().

  2. ^Reconstructed by the Louvre as "Cripples, take heart, and may your affairs prosper.", cf. Louvre webpage
  3. ^R. H. Marijnissen, Bruegel, tout l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Éditions Albin Michel (), pp.

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