The Land of Cockaigne (Bruegel)

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Het Luilekkerland (Dutch, "Cockaigne", literally "The Lazy-Tasty Land") – known in English as The Land of Cockaigne – is a 1567 oil painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569). 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.

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