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Sculpture In Brussels
Sculpture in Brussels has been created from the Middle Ages to the present day. The city has been an uninterrupted centre of autonomous training in the art of sculpture and has produced a long continuity of sculptors who were born and trained in Brussels or who came there to train. This style or school is sometimes referred to as the Brussels school of sculpture (; ). Brussels' sculpture began to shine in the second half of the 14th century with Claus Sluter's arrival in the city and the construction of the Brussels Town Hall, Town Hall. It continued without interruption and reached its momentum during 15th and 16th centuries.''Le Folklore brabançon'' (in French), 1976, p. 103 : "''Ces chefs-d'œuvre appartiennent tous deux, à la sculpture bruxelloise, très florissante aux xve et xvie siècles''". Until the end of the Ancien Régime, sculptors in Brussels were members of the Guilds of Brussels, ''Quatre Couronnés'' Guild of the Nation of St Nicholas and then the Académie Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruxelles Manneken Pis Cropped
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalities, 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country. It is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, and is separate from the Flemish Region (Flanders), within which it forms an enclave, and the Walloon Region (Wallonia), located less than to the south. Brussels grew from a small rural settlement on the river Senne (river), Senne to become an important city-region in Europe. Since the end of the Second World War, it has been a major centre for international politics and home to numerous international organisations, politicians, Diplomacy, diplomats and civil servants. Brussels is the ''de facto' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Netherlands
The Southern Netherlands, also called the Catholic Netherlands, were the parts of the Low Countries belonging to the Holy Roman Empire which were at first largely controlled by Habsburg Spain (Spanish Netherlands, 1556–1714) and later by the Austrian Habsburgs (Austrian Netherlands, 1714–1794) until occupied and annexed by Revolutionary France (1794–1815). The region also included a number of smaller states that were never ruled by Spain or Austria: the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, the Imperial Abbey of Stavelot-Malmedy, the County of Bouillon, the County of Horne and the Princely Abbey of Thorn. The Southern Netherlands comprised most of modern-day Belgium and Luxembourg, small parts of the modern Netherlands and Germany (the Upper Guelders region, as well as the Bitburg area in Germany, then part of Luxembourg), in addition to (until 1678) most of the present Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, and Longwy area in northern France. The (southern) Upper Guelders region consi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilles-Lambert Godecharle
Gilles-Lambert Godecharle (2 December 1750 in Brussels − 24 February 1835 in Brussels) was a Belgian sculptor, a pupil of Laurent Delvaux, "the only sculptor of international repute in Delvaux's retinue", who became one of two outstanding representatives of Neoclassicism in the Austrian Netherlands. He was born in the Austrian Netherlands. In response to his early promise, empress Maria Theresa awarded him a stipend that enabled him to travel for his studies, first to Paris, then to Rome. He received official commissions under Napoleon and under William I of the Netherlands. His pediment sculptures for the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate of the Austrian Netherlands, now the Belgian Federal Parliament, Brussels, (1781–82) are his most prominent public commission, represented today by a careful copy following his models conserved at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels''L'art au Sénat: découverte d'un patrimoine'' p. 26. but by far the greatest part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot
Jean-Baptiste Edmond Fleuriot-Lescot (1761 – 28 July 1794), also known as Lescot-Fleuriot, was a Belgian architect, sculptor, and revolutionary politician. He briefly served as Mayor of Paris in 1794 during the most radical phase of the French Revolution, and was executed by guillotine alongside Maximilien Robespierre and his allies on 9 Thermidor Year II. Biography Early life and career Fleuriot-Lescot was born in Brussels in 1761, the son of Nicolas Fleuriot-Lescot, an officer of the University of Paris, and Erneste Ebherlinck. He worked as an architect and sculptor, and served the Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, directing peat operations in Liancourt (Oise) from 1785. He later settled in Paris, where he married Françoise Madeleine Belloir-Dutally in 1788. In 1789, he participated in the Brabant Revolution against the reforms of Emperor Joseph II, before taking refuge in France. Revolutionary activity Once in Paris, Fleuriot-Lescot became active in revolutionary po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Denis Plumier
Pierre-Denis Plumier (4 March 1688 – 24 February 1721) was a Flemish sculptor. Biography Plumier was born in Antwerp in 1688, the son of Franciscus Puymier and Anna Schobbens. In 1699 he was apprenticed to the sculptor Louis Willemsen in Antwerp. Between 1700 and 1713 he lived first in Paris, where in 1708 he was awarded the first prize of the ''Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture'', and then in Rome. In 1713 he returned to Brussels, where his first commission was a portrait bust of Goswin de Wynants. In the same year he made two marble works for the Marquis de Mérode-Westerlo for the castle of Enghien in the province of Hainaut: ''Enlèvement de Proserpine'' and ''Enlèvement des Sabines''. Both works are now in the Egmont Palace of Brussels. Plumier's work is considered part of the Brussels School. Two well-known pupils of his were Laurent Delvaux and Theodoor Verhaegen. In 1721 Plumier, followed by Delvaux, went to London where he died a short time later, at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Van Dievoet
Peter van Dievoet (; Dutch language, Dutch: ''Peeter van Dievoet'', French language, French: ''Pierre van Dievoet'', Latin: ''Petrus''; 16611729) was a Flemish Baroque sculptor, statuary, wood carver and designer of ornamental architectural elements active in Brussels and England. He is known for his work on a number of the Baroque architecture, Baroque Guildhall, guild houses on the Grand-Place (Brussels's main square), which was rebuilt after Bombardment of Brussels (1695), the bombardment of 1695, as well as on the Statue of James II, Trafalgar Square, Statue of James II on Trafalgar Square, London, made in collaboration with fellow Flemish sculptor Laurens van der Meulen.Horace Walpole, ''Anecdotes of painting in England: with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS. by Mr. Horace Walpole'', London, 1765, vol. III, p. 91 : "Gibbons had several discip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Cosijn
Jan Cosijn, Jan Cosijn or Jan Cosyns (in French language literature referred to as Jean Cosyn or Jean Cosyns)''Liste des sculpteurs et tailleurs de pierres signalée dans le rnêrne avis du magistrat de Bruxelles'' in: Annales de l'Académie Royale d'Archéologie de Belgique, Volume 23, De Académie Royale d'Archéologie de Belgique, Antwerp, 1867, Imprimerie J.-E. Buschmann, Rue des Israélites, p. 507 (baptised in Brussels (city), Brussels on 4 March 1646 – Brussels, late March 1708) was a Flemish sculptor and architect active in Brussels. He produced statuary for churches as well as architectural designs and decorative elements for the reconstruction of the Grand-Place, Grand-Place/Grote Markt (main square) in Bruss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Van Delen
Jan van Delen (1635/1636, City of Brussels, Brussels – 12 March 1703,Edmond Marchal, ''La sculpture et les chefs-d'œuvre de l'orfèvrerie belges'' Bruxelles, 1895, p. 551 Brussels) was a Flemish sculptor who is mainly known for his Baroque church sculptures, allegorical scenes, funeral monuments and portraits.Jan van Delen at the Netherlands Institute for Art History He was principally active in Brussels where he popularized the Flemish Baroque style in sculpture. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
