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From the 15th century onwards, a popular tradition associated madness with a stone lodged in the brain. In “The Extraction of the Stone of Madness“ by the Dutch artist #HieronymusBosch, a man is trepanned by a surgeon whose upside-down funnel hat marks him as charlatan. The image is inscribed with a reference to this folk belief, but the object being extracted from the patient’s brain is not, however, a stone, but rather a lily bulb. Discover #HumanBrains It Begins with an Idea at #fondazioneprada #Venice Link in bio