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Item Number: 133294
Title: CORNEILLE VAN NERVEN : l'architecte méconnu de l'Hotel de Ville de Bruxelles
Author: Van Belle, Jean-Louis ; Jan Caluwaert
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9782874570810
Description: Bruxelles: Safran, 2014. 24cm., pbk., 111pp. illus., most in color. Summary: If you happen to visit and admire the “Grand-Place” in Brussels - and especially its famous Town Hall – as thousands of tourists from all over the world presently do every year, you most probably won’t be aware that an important part of the aspect they have today is due to the work of an architect-sculptor who would deserve to be better known than he is. After the bombing of Brussels in the year 1695, Corneille van Nerven and his teams set about rebuilding and restoring the picturesque buildings surrounding the famous Market Place. This book is about his manyfold activities as well in Brussels as in Malines (the grave of archbishop de Precipiano is really worth seeing); as well in the castle of Marquis de Merode-Westerloo as in Scotland (where we can admire the Kinross castle). Corneille was the most famous member of a family of artists (painters and sculptors) having come over from the Netherlands (his father worked in Rotterdam before settling down in Brussels) who took up their abode not only in Belgium but also in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth century. (collection Histoire, 6. ^Forthcoming^)
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