fyeah-history:Cutting the Stone by Hieronymus BoschCutting the Stone, also called The Extraction of
fyeah-history:Cutting the Stone by Hieronymus BoschCutting 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. In the painting Bosch has exchanged the traditional “stone” as the object of extraction with the bulb of a flower. Another flower is on the table.The Gothic inscription readsMeester snyt die keye rasMyne name Is lubbert Das(in English: “Master, cut away the stone, my name is Lubbert das”).Lubbert Das was a comical (foolish) character in Dutch literature. -- source link