

3Ī closely related but unsigned version, which includes an inscription of the proverb on its original frame as well as the painting’s date, 1592, differs in quality as well as in compositional details ( fig 2). As is characteristic of Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s manner of painting, the artist sketched the composition directly on the ground and faithfully followed his preparatory drawing in the final composition ( fig 1). The contours and folds of fabrics in highlighted areas of the man’s red shirt and in the dress of the crawling figures are slightly raised because of the paint’s impasto. 2 Quickly executed in loose, wet paint, the translucency of the multiple paint layers allows one to appreciate the artist’s assured handling. This painting is in excellent condition, with only a few retouchings from prior restorations.

With irony and wit, Brueghel indicates that not even the spiritually elevated are spared from this universal tendency to “brownnose,” as a man from a religious order, probably a Franciscan to judge from his brown cloak and hood, eagerly crawls into the man’s hole.

In the foreground, a number of smaller figures crawl behind him and enter into the cavernous opening of his rear end. Nude from the waist down, he squats near a tree as though defecating. Here, Pieter Brueghel the Younger depicts a disproportionately large man holding a sack of coins that pours out from under his arm. One of these is the Mutation of MBS NFT and MBS Marketplace which will be launch at the end of 2022.This delightfully amusing painting, previously unpublished, depicts an old Flemish proverb that wealthy men will always have flatterers: “Because so much money creeps into my sack, the whole world climbs into my hole.” 1 This saying recalls modern day descriptions of flatterers as “brownnosers” or “ass-kissers,” terms that no doubt descend from the vivid pictorial tradition of illustrations such as this. The founders have a lot of big projects in the planning. MBS NFT is your first ticket to many benefits in the next MoneyBag Society project. The MBS NFT you have now is only the beginning of Project MoneyBag Society’s evolution. Anyone can become a member of the MBS community, which can be found on Discord,Twitter,Reddit,Medium and Instagram. MBS has several levels of scarcity, with batik clothing being the rarest, accounting for less than 1% of the total collection. Future areas and perks can be unlocked by the community through roadmap activation.Ĭontact Address: 0x114aa35c50f9a7b0b04b9B2a2FB9A51fDa4Ee180 Your MoneyBag as your Society membership card, and grants access to members-only benefits, the first of which is access to the MBS Private Room. MoneyBag Society (MBS) is a collection of 3,000 MoneyBag Face Characters NFTs-unique digital collectibles living on the Polygon blockchain, MBS Born at the end of 2021.
