Beauties of continental architecture

Coney, John

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Persistenter Identifier:: 1460979038851

Titel:: Beauties of continental architecture

Untertitel:: in a series of views of ancient cathedrals and other remarkable public buildings, in France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy

Künstler/Illustrator:: Coney, John

Verleger/Verlag:: M. A. Nattali

Erscheinungsort:: London

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1843

Sprache:: englisch; französisch

Strukturtyp:: Monografie

Besitzende Institution:: Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart

Standort:: Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart

Signatur:: 1Kc 1099

Lizenz:: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/deed.de

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Titel:: St. Michael´s Tower, Brussels

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The Town Hall of Brussels has always been considered as one of the finest specimens of this style of architecture in the Low Countries. The Gothic orna ments with which it is enriched, are not indeed by any means so highly wrought as those of the magnificent Town Hall of Louvain, which must be allowed to be the ne plus ultra of this gorgeous style. Those of the Town Hall of Brussels are, however, sufficiently rich to give the edifice a highly ornamented appearance. The most remarkable part of the building is the light and beautiful tower, which is 364 feet in height, and terminates in a spire of open work, surmounted by a Statue of St. Michael, seventeen feet high, which serves as a weathercock, whence it is sometimes called St. Michael’s Tower. The building of the Town Hall was commenced in the year 1380, and it was completed in 1442. The Vignettes represent a stone cross at a short distance from the city; and a stone group representing the Virgin Mary with the body of Christ, and angels, with a richly ornamented pedestal or bracket, and canopy.

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