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St Jacobskerk (St James's Church) - Antwerp - Reviews of St Jacobskerk (St James's Church) - TripAdvisor
I am an art history traveler, and one of my primary reasons for going to Antwerp was to see the Rubens Chapel in St. Jacobskerk. I e-mailed ahead of time and learned from the church maste...
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St. James Church (St Jacobskerk), Antwerp
In 1491, construction began on the present Church of St. James in Brabantine-Gothic style. At that time, this area was inhabited by the upper middle classes, and they planned to show off their wealth by building a tower talle...
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St Jacobskerk (St. James's Church) | Museum/Attraction Review | Antwerp | Frommers.com
This flamboyant Gothic church with a baroque interior is the final resting place of Peter Paul Rubens. His vault is in the Rubens Chapel, one of seven chapels bordering the opulent semicircular ambulatory behind the high altar. Several of Rubens's works are here, as well as some by Van Dyck and othe...
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The St. James's church (St. Jacobskerk) in Antwerp, Antwerpen.
The parishioners lavished their wealth with more success on the inside of the church. Here more than one hundred sorts of marble are be found, which according to the eighteenth-century prefect from the Vatican, Cardinal Garampi, ‘could scarcely have been worked more skillfully’. The walls are hung w...
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St. James' Church, Antwerp
St. James' Church boasts some fine baroque interior decorations, like the wood carved choir stalls, created between 1658 and 1570, the opulent main altar (1685) and the communion rails of the holy chapel (1695). The central, wood-carved pulpit was created in 1675 by Lodewijk Willemssens. The organ, ...
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