Keywords: Abraham Bloemaert - Parable of the Wheat and the Tares - Walters 372505.jpg In this parable from the Gospel of Matthew the devil identified by his horns and tail sows weeds or tares in the field where wheat has been planted while the lazy peasants are sleeping Christians considered sloth one of the Seven Deadly Sins to which mankind was subject as a result of the Original Sin of Adam and Eve to whom the two naked sleepers allude The dovecote a birdhouse to attract doves or pigeons that can be trapped for food without the bother of raising them was associated with the morally lazy who take the easy way The goat known for its lust alludes to self-indulgence and the peacock to pride Bloemaert was gifted in depicting natural detail but he never painted pure landscapes preferring pictures with a lesson He was one of the leading artists of Utrecht and trained many major artists of the next generation Darstellung einer Parabel aus dem Matthäusevangelium von Abraham Bloemaert Der Teufel hier bezeichnet durch Hörner und Schwanz bringt Unkraut auf das Feld schlafender Bauern aus Die nackte Form der Bauern verweist auf Adam und Eva welche der Menschheit die Ursünde der Trägheit eine Todsünde im christlichen Glauben vererbten Auch der Taubenschlag ein Vogelhaus das der Taubenjagd zum Verzehr dient wurde moralisch mit faulen Menschen in Verbindung gebracht Ziegenbock und Pfau verweisen auf Genusssucht und Stolz 1624 Baroque Oil on canvas cm 100 4 132 5 accession number 37 2505 26419 Justice James A Murnaghan Collection Dublin by 1929 Walters Art Museum Gift of the Dr Francis D Murnaghan Fund 1973 Masters of Seventeenth Century Dutch Landscape Painting Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts Boston Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia 1987-1988 Masters of Light Dutch Painters in Utrecht During the Golden Age The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco San Francisco; The National Gallery London 1997-1998 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 The Glory of the Golden Age Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Amsterdam 2000 place of origin Utrecht Netherlands <gallery> Abraham Bloemaert - Landscape with the Parable of the Tares among the Wheat - WGA02280 jpg 229 KB Abraham Bloemaert - Parable of the Wheat and the Tares - Google Art Project jpg 15 39 MB</gallery> Walters Art Museum license 2D ImageNote 1 7 643 132 162 1799 1369 2 Peacock ImageNoteEnd 1 ImageNote 2 1185 828 66 135 1799 1369 2 devil ImageNoteEnd 2 Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Dutch paintings in the Walters Art Museum Paintings by Abraham Bloemaert 1624 Dutch Golden Age paintings Paintings of the Devil People in fields in art 1624 paintings Sloth Dovecotes in art People with goats in art Peacocks in paintings Parable of the Tares |