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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 in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, completed around 1494 or later.
The painting depicts the extraction of the stone of madness, a "keye" (in English a "stone" or "bulb") from a patient's head, using trepanation by a man wearing a funnel hat.[1] 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 reads
Meester snijt die keye ras
Mijne 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.
Interpretations
[redigér | rediger kildetekst]It is possible that the flower is a pun on "tulip head" - meaning mad in Netherlands. Another possibility is that the flower hints that the doctor is a charlatan as does the funnel hat. The woman balancing a book on her head is thought by Skemmer to be a satire of the Flemish custom of wearing amulets made out of books and scripture, a pictogram for the word phylactery.[2] Otherwise, she is thought to depict folly.
Attributed works
[redigér | rediger kildetekst]This painting, and others by Bosch, were an inspiration to the works of the seminal Punk musicians Wire. On their album, "The Ideal Copy", they included a track titled "Madman's Honey" which included the lyric "master cut the stone out, my name is Lubbert Das" — a direct reference to this Bosch painting.
External links
[redigér | rediger kildetekst]References
[redigér | rediger kildetekst]- ^ Povoledo, Elisabetta (oktober 27, 2008). "In Rome, a New Museum Invites a Hands-On Approach to Insanity". The Economist. Hentet 2008-10-28.
The logo of the Mind’s Museum is an overturned funnel. It is a reference to a 15th-century painting by Hieronymus Bosch that depicts a doctor using a scalpel to extract an object (the supposed “stone of madness”) from the skull of a patient. The doctor is wearing a funnel as a hat.
{{cite news}}: Cite har en ukendt tom parameter:|coauthors=(hjælp)CS1-vedligeholdelse: Dato automatisk oversat (link) - ^ Skemer 2006:24.
Further reading
[redigér | rediger kildetekst]- (book on head) Binding Words Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages. Skemer, Don C. PA: Penn State Press, 2006. p. 24, 136n. ISBN 0271027223.