Manneken Pis
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Manneken Pis is a landmark 55.5 cm bronze fountain sculpture in central Brussels, Belgium, depicting a puer mingens: a nude boy urinating into the fountain's basin. Though its existence is attested as
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Detail from The Ommegang in Brussels on 31 May 1615 (Denis Van Alsloot, 1616). Manneken Pis (middle right) is dressed for the occasion.
View of the Fountain of Manneken Pis, etching by Jacobus Harrewijn from Les délices des Pays-Bas, 1697
Manneken Pis in its rocaille-style niche, fitted in 1770, appears to be smaller than in its original setting.
Puer mingens
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A puer mingēns is a figure in a work of art depicted as a prepubescent boy in the act of urinating, either actual or simulated. The puer mingens could represent anything from whimsy and boyish innocen
Manneken Pis
…Pis (pronounced ; Dutch for 'Little Pissing Man') is a landmark 55.5 cm (21.9 in) bronze fountain sculpture in central Brussels, Belgium, depicting a puer mingens: a nude boy urinating into the fountain's basin. Though its existence is attested as early as the mid-15th century, Manneken Pis was redesigned by the…
Two pueri mingentes in the sacristy lavabo, Florence Cathedral
Venus and Cupid, Lorenzo Lotto, 1530, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Puer mingens with poppy pods, on a desco da parto, Apollonio di Giovanni, 1450s, Kress collection