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The collegiate Peter Church in the centre of Leuven.
It was built in the style of the Brabantine Gothic, A very ornate late gothic style popular in what is now the Dutch/Belgian border region. Typical features of this style are the thick, round pillars crowned with capital adorned with sculpted leaves, a crown of chapels around the choir of the church and rich ornamentation of the wall around the windows in the clerestory. Here we see that which, by accident, became the most recognizable feature of the style: An unfinished tower. These buildings were usually so expensive and ornate that building them took way too much time. By the time the builders started on the tower, the money would probably have run out or the religious wars that came over europe after the middle ages would end construction. In this case it was the sloppy soil that prevented the completion of the enormous triple towered front that should have graced the city. All over the west and south side you can still see half-finished ornaments, undecorated butresses and the base of what should have become a mighty arched gateway is covered by a simple roof in this picture. |
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Johan
Belle lumière qui illumine de belle façon cette superbe façade d'église. Peut-être aurais-tu pu tenter un redressement de perspectives?
Amicalement
JJ
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