Great Art Jigsaw

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525 - 1569) was from the Netherlands. He is well known for his genre paintings (scenes of common and domestic life) and also for his landscapes. He is the "head" of the Bruegel dynasty (see below).

The Land of Cockaigne 1566.
The Land of Cockaigne is a fictional Utopia; a medieval mythical land of plenty, pleasure and idleness, and an antidote to the reality of medieval lives which were generally nasty, brutish and short - to quote Thomas Hobbes slightly out of context.
Bruegel evidently did not approve of the concept - in his painting he depicts the inhabitants of this mythical land as lazy and gluttonous.
Further reading on The Land of Cockaigne and Bruegel's painting:
• Wikipedia article on The Land of Cockaigne
• The Golden Dream website offers information and also provides the complete text for the fouteenth century poem, The Land of Cockaigne.
• The painting is owned by the Alte Pinakothek galllery in Munich