Cities of Belgium
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Cities of Belgium is a book by Grant Allen. The preface to the second edition says alterations, especially in the Brussels Gallery, make a new edition of this book imperative. The text says that in the early 16th century, when navigation had assumed new conditions and trade was largely diverted to the Atlantic, Antwerp, the port of the Schelde, superseded the towns on the inland network.
The text says that in Flanders everything is in essence commercial, and that the architecture consists mainly, not of private palaces, but of guilds, town halls, exchanges, belfries. The text says St. Cecilia is shown with a bell, substituted in northern art, where the chimes in the belfry were so important, for the organ which she holds in Italy. The text describes a Calvary built up with rock and slag against the wall of the Transept, with a Crucifixion above and Entombment and Holy Sepulchre below.
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- Author
- Grant Allen
- Pages
- 152
- Language
- English
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- European History
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