🖼️ The Land of Cockaigne · Pieter Brueghel the Elder
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Het Luilekkerland – known in English as The Land of Cockaigne – is a 1567 oil painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. In medieval times, Cockaigne was a mythical land of plenty, but Bruegel's depiction of Cockaigne and its residents is not meant to be a flattering one. He chooses rather a comic illustration of the spiritual emptiness believed to derive from gluttony and sloth, two of the seven deadly sins. Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1550 — painted at 25. Panel and oil paint. 51.5 × 78.3 cm. In the Bavarian State Painting Collections. Wiki link
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