Duccio di Buoninsegna ca. 1255 – 1319
The Healing of a Blind Man (Maestà)
tempera on panel (43 × 45 cm) — 1308-11
Duccio di Buoninsegna biography
This work is linked to John 9:6
Art and the Bible - John 9 - New Testament
John 9 1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: bu
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The gospels tell several stories of blind men who are healed by Jesus. John devotes his entire chapter 9 to a blind man in Jerusalem. Mark describes a healing in Bethsaida in 8:22. In 10:46 he tells of the healing of one Bartimaeus in Jericho. Matthew even has Jesus heal two blind men in one occasion: 20:29-34, while leaving Jericho.
That makes it hard to tell which healing Duccio choose to depict in his Maestà. It probably is one man shown in two states: blind and healed (he throws away his stick).
The panel used to be part of the predella of Duccio's masterpiece. He was probably assisted by several artists in his workshop.
Next to this panel was the panel with the Transfiguration. That probably explains why the healed man looks upwards.
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