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Luilekkerland ("The Land of Cockaigne"), by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1567.
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This painting from 1567 shows a utopia, a land of plenty. Three men lay sprawled on the ground, either sleeping or resting. One man has loosened his pants. There are several odd things in this painting. In the foreground, a soft-boiled egg is walking around ready to eat. In the background, one soldier takes shelter under a roof tiled with pancakes, a goose has put himself upon a platter, a pig is walking with a carving knife attached to it, and a man seems to be emerging from a pastry-like mountain with a spoon in his hand.

Credit: Alte Pinakothek, Munich (Munchen), Germany

Cockaigne or Cockayne is a medieval mythical land of plenty, an imaginary place of luxury. In this land physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand and the harshness of medieval peasant life does not exist. Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted this image in 1567 to portray the fictional "Lubberland" or "Cockaigne."

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