The English 'brothel' comes from the French bordel or 'place of prostitution'.

Jan Sanders van Hemessen (c. 1500 - c. 1566) was a leading artist of the second generation of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting; belonging to the group of Italianizing Flemish painters called the Romanists; who were influenced by Italian Renaissance painting. Unlike some of these Hemessen had visited Italy at least once; and also Fontainebleau; where there was at the time a colony of Italian artists; the First School of Fontainebleau; working on the palace there.