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Het Luilekkerland (Dutch the lazy-luscious-land) — known in English as The Land of Cockaigne — is a 1567 oil painting by Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569). In medieval times Cockaigne was a mythical land of plenty but Bruegel’s depiction of Cockaigne and its residents is not meant to be a flattering one. He chooses rather a comic illustration of the spiritual emptiness believed to derive from gluttony and sloth two of the seven deadly sins.
