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Cutting the Stone
Cutting 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
and longer-wearing cutting edge.
See also.
- Chalk carving
- Khachkar
- Stone sculpture
- Stonemasonry
External links.
- Stone Carving: A How-To Demonstration, video
- Stone Carver Interview, Gargoyles and the Gothic Style: An Interview with professional stone carver Walter S. Arnold, video
- "The Cesnola collection of Cypriot art: stone sculpture", a fully digitized collection catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on stone carvings