The Extraction of the Stone of Madness Magnet

Hieronymus Bosch 1475–1480 Oil on board 48 cm × 35 cm (19 in × 14 in) Museo del Prado, Madrid The Extraction of the Stone of Madness (The Cure of Folly) is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, completed between 1475 and 1480. 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. Above text generated by wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Extraction_of_the_Stone_of_Madness_(The_Cure_of_Folly)