Cockaigne
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Cockaigne or Cockayne is a land of plenty in medieval myth, an imaginary place of luxury and ease, comfort and pleasure, opposite to the harshness of medieval peasant life. In poems like The Land of C
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Luilekkerland ("The Land of Cockaigne "), oil on panel (1567; Alte Pinakothek, Munich)
Francisco Goya: La cucaña ("The Greasy Pole", c. 1786)
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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 lan
Cockaigne
…an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994. "The Land of Cockaigne" was depicted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in his painting Luilekkerland (1567). Cockaigne, a 2003 painting by Vincent Desiderio…
Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. Das Schlaraffenland 8940 Bavarian State Painting Collections
The print by Pieter Balten that inspired Bruegel (ca. 1560)
The copy attributed to Pieter van der Heyden (with flying bird)1525/1575
sleeping farmer in The Harvesters (1565)