In The Blind Leading the Blind, how is the Legacy discussed?
The Blind Leading the Blind has been considered one of the great masterpieces of painting.  Bruegel's is the earliest surviving painting whose subject is the parable of the blind leading the blind, though there are earlier engravings from the Low Countries known that Bruegel was likely aware of, including one attributed to Bosch, and another by Cornelis Massijs.  Bruegel's paintings have enjoyed worldwide popularity and have been the subjects of scholarly works in disciplines even outside the arts, such as medicine.Bruegel's depictions of beggars in paintings such as The Blind Leading the Blind left a strong influence on those who followed him, such as David Vinckboons. Hieronymus Wierix incorporated a copy of The Blind Leading the Blind into the series Twelve Flemish Proverbs.  A forgery attributed to Jacob Savery called The Blind appeared c. 1600 bearing a false inscription dating it 1562.  Bruegel's son Pieter Brueghel the Younger painted a larger copy in c. 1616 with extra details, including a flock of sheep, that hangs in the Louvre; this copy was in the collection of Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, patron of Italian Baroque painter Domenico Fetti, who may have been influenced by the painting when he executed his own version of the parable around 1621–22.
Paintings inspired by Bruegel's The Blind Leading the Blind
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
The painting has been the subject of poetry, including works by the Germans Josef Weinheber and Walter Bauer, and Frenchman Charles Baudelaire's "The Blind". American William Carlos Williams wrote a series of poems on Bruegel's paintings; his "Parable of the Blind" focuses on the meaning of The Blind's composition—a word that appears three times in the poems eight tercets.  The figures stumble diagonally downward, and—
                         ... onefollows the other stick inhand triumphant to disaster
Bruegel's painting served as a model for Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck's one-act The Blind. West German writer Gert Hofmann's 1985 novel The Parable of the Blind features Bruegel and the six blind men: to accomplish a realistic portrayal, Bruegel repeatedly has the men cross a bridge and fall into a creek in midwinter until their expressions achieve the desolation Bruegel believes represents the human condition. A 1987 historical novel Bruegel, or the Workshop of Dreams by Claude-Henri Rocquet has Bruegel painting the blind out of fear of losing his own eyesight.French cartoonist F'Murr's comic strip Les Aveugles (1991) was inspired by Bruegel's painting.
the blind leading the blind Jacob Savery Josef Weinheber David Vinckboons Low Countries Pieter Brueghel the Younger William Carlos Williams Parable Domenico Fetti parable Claude-Henri Rocquet Charles Baudelaire The Parable of the Blind Louvre another Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua Bosch Baroque West German Cornelis Massijs one F'Murr Walter Bauer Gert Hofmann Maurice Maeterlinck left tercet The Blind Hieronymus Wierix