Jacques Francart

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Jacques Francart

Flemish architect

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Western architecture
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Rubens’s friends Jacques Francart and Pieter Huyssens created an influential northern centre for vigorous expansive Baroque architecture to which France, England, and Germany turned. Francart’s Béguinage Church (1629) at Mechelen (Malines) and Huyssens’s St. Charles Borromeo (1615) at Antwerp set the stage for the more fully developed…
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Rubens’s friends Jacques Francart and Pieter Huyssens created an influential northern centre for vigorous expansive Baroque architecture to which France, England, and Germany turned. Francart’s Béguinage Church (1629) at Mechelen (Malines) and Huyssens’s St. Charles Borromeo (1615) at Antwerp set the stage for the more fully developed…
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