The Land of Cockaigne
Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1550
Why it's great
A farmer, a soldier and a scholar lie asleep and full of food under a tree, in a land where roast pigs run around with knives in their backs. Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted it in 1567, and it is a funny picture of an imaginary land where nobody works.
Where to see it
📍 Alte PinakothekMunich, Germany
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Flemish painter born near Breda in about 1525. He lived in Antwerp and Brussels and became famous for crowded paintings of village life, proverbs and landscapes. He died in Brussels in 1569.
