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, sloth and the other 7 deadly sins.
“Not only the Willow” by Diana Baur
one of the 2D entries depicting Cockaigne in much the same way that Bruegel did, but with a 21st Century environmental twist.
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