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Manneken Pis is unveiled

1619 CE · Belgium, Europe · Culture

Manneken Pis is unveiled
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Manneken Pis 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 Brabantine sculptor Jérôme Duquesnoy the Elder and put in place in 1619.

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