The Guild of Saint Thomas and Saint Luke (french: Gilde de St-Thomas et St-Luc), founded in 1863 during the first of the
Malines Congresses, was a
Belgian association for the study and promotion of
Medieval art
The medieval art of the Western world covers a vast scope of time and place, over 1000 years of art in Europe, and at certain periods in Western Asia and Northern Africa. It includes major art movements and periods, national and regional art, gen ...
from a Christian perspective.
Activities
Papers were read at the regular meetings, scholarships were funded, and the guild made an annual study trip. In 1867 the guild organized an exhibition of medieval art in Bruges. Until 1913, it published an annual ''Bulletin''.
Members
The founders,
Jean-Baptiste Bethune and
William Henry James Weale, were both influential figures in the
Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
in Belgium. The first president of the guild was the clergyman-scholar
Charles-Joseph Voisin, with international vice-presidents
Joseph Albert Alberdingk Thijm (from the Netherlands) and Franz Johann Joseph Bock (from Germany).
Jules Helbig also quickly became an influential member.
Arthur Verhaegen Arthur Théodore Verhaegen (31 August 1847 in Brussels – 5 September 1917 in Elsene) was a Gothic Revival Belgian architect and a politician of the Catholic Party, one of the founders of Belgian Christian democracy. He was a grandson of the polit ...
joined the guild in 1874 and helped organise that year's study trip, which was to
Hasselt
Hasselt (, , ; la, Hasseletum, Hasselatum) is a Belgian city and municipality, and capital and largest city of the province of Limburg in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is known for its former branding as "the city of taste", as well as its ...
,
Maaseik and
Diest.
[Jan De Maeyer, ''Arthur Verhaegen, 1847-1917: De rode baron'' (Leuven University Press, 1994), p. 131.] In 1881 he became editor of the ''Bulletin'', and in 1884 secretary.
Publications
*Gilde de Saint-Thomas et de Saint-Luc, ''Bulletin des séances'' (1871
on Google Books*Gilde de Saint-Thomas et de Saint-Luc, ''Bulletin des séances'' (1874
on Google Books
References
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Further reading
* Ellen Van Impe, "Regionalism, Rationalism and Modernity in the Early Twentieth-Century St Luke Movement", in ''Sources of Regionalism in the Nineteenth Century: Architecture, Art, and Literature'', edited by Linda Van Santvoort and Tom Verschaffel (Leuven University Press, 2008), pp. 139-160.
1863 establishments in Belgium