Lantern slides created in Belgium. These lantern slides were intended for use in architectural pedagogy. Image subjects include public buildings, historic buildings, church exteriors and interiors, and synagogues. Street photographs include people and fashions of the time.
Architectural Lantern Slides of Belgium
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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A building located in Bruges, Belgium.
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Public
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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Interior view of the church belonging to the Abbey of Saint-Jean at Florennes, founded by Gerard of Florennes (ca. 975, bishop 1012-1051), bishop of Cambrai as Gerard I, with the monastic reformer Richard of Verdun in 1015. Gerard transferred the abbey to the church of Liège, so that it served the diocese of Liege and Namur, also drawing together a community of monks from Verdun. On the site, only the former abbey farm remains, on the outskirts of Florennes. The former abbey church also hou…
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Public
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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Central Post office, Brussels, Belgium. The building was built in 1892 and demolished in 1965.
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Public
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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Church in Veurne, Belgium (French, Furnes)
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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Veurne Butchers’ Hall or Oud Vleeshuis, a butcher’s shop and meat market in 1615, now houses the town library. In 1615 a new Vleeshal was built in the late renaissance style. In 1861 the building was converted to a theater by Pierre Croquison. The building was restored in 1895. A brick building.
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Public
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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Interior detail from Gothic church in Halle, Belgium. Church dates from 1409 and was declared a basilica in 1946. Contains a celebrated miraculous image of the Holy Virgin, The Black Madonna of Halle.
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Public
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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Cloth hall in Veurne, Belgium.
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Public
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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The building lost somewhat of its typical neoclassical temple-like appearance by the addition in the 19th-century of a bell tower (after the design of Tilman-François Suys) and a colored fresco by Jean Portaels on the pediment.
The building was designed and built to be included in the neoclassical style of the Place Royale. Construction of the facade was started by architect Gilles-Barnabé Guimard after the designs of Jean-Benoît-Vincent Barré (1775). The nave, transept, choir and and sacris…
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Public
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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Designed by Jacob (Jean-Jacques) Winders and Frans Van Dijk, built beginning in 1884, opened in 1890, and completed in 1894. Sculpture on the building includes two bronze figures of Fame with horse-drawn chariots by sculptor Thomas Vincotte, and seven rondel medallions of artists that include Boetius à Bolswert, Frans Floris, Jan Van Eyck, Peter Paul Rubens, Quentin Matsys, Erasmus Quellinus II, and Appelmans, separated by four monumental sculptures representing Architecture, Painting, Sculpt…
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Public
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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Built by architect Hendrik van Pede in 1526-1537 to replace the medieval Schepenhuis (Aldermen’s House) that occupied the same site. Another older structure, the 14th-century Cloth Hall, was retained and now forms a sort of extension at the back of the Town Hall proper. The Town Hall initially combined functions of government and commerce, with rooms on the ground floor reserved for traders: the Corn House, Weighhouse and Lower Cloth Hall. The Oudenaarde Town Hall was a late flowering of …
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Public
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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The Dympna altarpiece dates from 1515, by the Antwerp artist Jan van Waver.
The church is dedicated to the Irish Saint Dympna, who according to legend was beheaded and buried in Geel in 600. She is the patron saint of the mentally ill and the church was a pilgrimage church. The present church building began in 1349, built in white sandstone. In 1489 it was ravaged by fire, after which reconstruction and expansion took place. Construction lasted until 1585 on the massive tower, decorated with…
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
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- Public
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- Creator(s):
- G. Massiot & cie
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On 16 September 1844, the project was awarded to a young architect from Ghent, Louis van Overstraeten, based on his designs in a competition begun in 1843. Van Overstraeten died from cholera in 1849 and was succeeded by Louis Hansotte. In 1853 the unfinished church was consecrated. Fund raising and building continued into 1880. The final cost is estimated as 2,547,888 Francs. Giacomo Puccini’s funeral was held in the church in 1924.
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01
- Record Visibility:
- Public