Trabajo; historia cultural; ciego; ceguera; zanfonía; música; perro; pobre francés - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 15:39:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Trabajo; historia cultural; ciego; ceguera; zanfonía; música; perro; pobre francés - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Blind man playing the hurdy-gurdy https://historylab.es/blind-man-playing-the-hurdy-gurdy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blind-man-playing-the-hurdy-gurdy Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/ciego-tocando-la-zanfonia/ Cultural and musical history of blind people's performance

The post Blind man playing the hurdy-gurdy first appeared on History Lab.

]]> The painting by the French artist Georges de La Tour depicts a real-life scene in which a blind man earns his living playing the hurdy-gurdy, sometimes also singing if he is skilled at it, and is often accompanied by a dog that follows his pulse. Blind men playing the hurdy-gurdy were common in La Torua’s paintings, although with numerous variations they cannot be considered copies of one another. It is interesting to note that their depictions, with the exception of the one in the Prado, were attributed at some point to Spanish painters. However, the Tesoro de la lengua castellana by Covarrubias, when for those contemporaries, the hurdy-gurdy was a poor Frenchman’s instrument.

The post Blind man playing the hurdy-gurdy first appeared on History Lab.

]]>