Lucas van Leyden - Healing of the blind man of Jericho (c. 1543)


The Flemish attention of Lucas van Leyden shows us all his skills as a draftsman, colorist, landscape painter and landscape painter.
Many figures, perhaps too many, but after careful reading and reconstruction you can understand what happens. Nice 16th century clothes on 1st century characters but that's okay.
Attention to detail, a light that is always that of the north, gray and without shadows.
The two side figures are a novelty in the style of the time, there are no patrons but two patient people holding up the patrons' family shields, he with that of her husband, she with that of his wife.

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