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From, Beautiful Buildings in France & Belgium, Including many which have been destroyed during the war. Reproductions in Colour and Monochrome from rare old Prints and Drawings, by and after Prout, Boys, Coney, W. Callow, David Roberts, C. Wild and others, with descriptive notes, by C. Harrison Townsend, F.R.I.B.A.; New York: The Hubbell Publishing Co., 1916; pp. 42-44.


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ANTWERP :  INTERIOR OF ST. ANDRÉ

(Jos. Nash)

Black and white drawing by Jos. Nash, of the Interior of St. André in Antwerp.



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Antwerp

ANTWERP : INTERIOR OF ST. ANDRÉ

(Jos. Nash.)

Block Print of the decorated letter THE identity of the art of Flanders — as shown so clearly in its architecture — with her national life was manifested for us not only in the XVth century, but again in the XVIIth. It was in the latter period that the churches not only enriched themselves with the works of the great school of later Flemish painters, but sought to place these in worthy surroundings, and in architectural settings that spoke their more modern time. Much was done in the way of enrichment of the interior of buildings by adding to them, in the later style, fittings and adjuncts such as fonts, pulpits, and altarpieces. 44 The drawing by Nash, a typical example, shows how in their design these were treated with a sublime indifference to the earlier Gothic work. Time, in most cases, has, with a kindly hand, softened and reconciled all differences of style.




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