Sculpture in Brussels

[1] It began to shine in the second half of the 14th century with Claus Sluter's arrival in Brussels and the construction of the city's Town Hall.

Until the end of the Ancien Régime, sculptors in Brussels were members of the Quatre Couronnés Guild of the Nation of St Nicholas and then the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

Among the sculptors who benefited most from the cultural policy of the Archdukes Albert VII and Isabella were the Antwerp-born Robrecht Colyns de Nole and the Brussels-born Jérôme Duquesnoy the Elder (best known for his Manneken Pis).

Until the end of the Ancien Régime, the training of sculptors in Brussels took place mainly within the framework of the Quatre Couronnés Guild of the Nation of St Nicholas, and was later taken up by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

Brussels, alongside Mechelen and Antwerp, played a dynamic role in the field of sculpture in the former Southern Netherlands.

Manneken Pis , original bronze statue by Jérôme Duquesnoy (I) , 1619. The one at the junction of the Rue de l'Étuve / Stoofstraat and the Rue du Chêne / Eikstraat is a replica from 1965.