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Cutting the Stone also called The Extraction of the Stone of Madness or The Cure of Folly is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch displayed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid completed around 1494 or later.The painting depicts the extraction by a man wearing a funnel hat of the stone of madness a keye (modern Dutch: kei) (in English a stone or bulb) from a patient’s head using trepanation.

Cutting_the_Stone_(Bosch).jpg
author
Hieronymus Bosch
museum
Museo del Prado

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