Bruxelles: Bruegel at work

Bruegel at work -sitting behind his painters’ easel with his eyes fixed on the Blaesstraat. On the easel there is no canvass, just a window. It is called the "open window" and it symbolises the open look at the world which was so much a part of the Renaissance humanists. On Brueghel’s shoulder there is a monkey with a funnel on his head. He symbolises the satirical spirit of Brueghel. Painter and monkey gaze in the same direction. If you are coming down from the Zavel, you see the artist’s back.