The blind shepherds, Blind Shepherds, Pasteurs aveugles (title on object), Allegories on the events in the Netherlands in the years 1576 to 1579 (series title), Landscape in which allegorical figures and visual elements together form a rebus. On the left a mantelpiece showing the year 1579, two blind shepherds, God the Father in heaven with the tables of the law. In the middle two bears, a mitten on a broken door, a fool heaving and on the right two wolves shearing sheep. In the background the population is being terrorized. The picture is an attack on the inability of the country's government

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