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Luilekkerland ("The Land of Cockaigne"), by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1567.
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."