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Leuven
Vlaams-Brabant Grote Markt 9
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236 Gevelbeelden aan het Stadhuis van Leuven236 Statues on Leuven's Town Hall(Wikipedia) |
1852-1907 |
Ground floor: Leuven artists, scholars and eminent citizens (two rows, in the list the upper pair precedes the lower pair) |
First floor: figures who symbolise the municipal privileges and the patron saints of the parishes |
Second floor: the Counts of Leuven and the Dukes of Brabant |
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Western façade (Naamsestraat) |
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Turrets eastern façade (Police station) | Turrets western façade |
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Ab = Michaël Abeloos (Leuven 1824-id. 1884) (22 statues: 14*, 15*, 18, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 70, 71, 72, 73*, 74, 75, 76*, 77*, 78*, 79*, 80*, 81*, 82, 83) DV = Paul De Vigne (Gent 1843-Brussel 1901) (2 statues: 98, 99*) Co = François Julien Courroit (St. Joost ten Noode 1831-Hasselt 1906) (8 or 10 statues: 7, 8, 66, 67, 68, 69, 142?*, 147?, 148, 149) Cu = Jean Henri Cuypers (Leuven 1844-id. 1897) (4 statues: 59, 60, 63, 64) Ge = Charles Henri Geerts (Antwerpen 1807-Leuven 1855) (6 statues: 40*, 41, 44*, 45, 48*, 49*) Go = Henri Goyers (Leuven 1819-id. 1888) and Joseph Alexis Goyers (Leuven 1821-id. 1885) (33 or 36 statues: 9, 10, 11*, 12, 13*, 16, 17*, 19, 20*, 21?, 22, 23, 24?, 25?*, 26, 27, 65, 102, 103, 104*, 105, 110, 111, 112, 113*, 114, 116, 117, 118, 119*, 120, 121, 122*, 123, 124, 143) Gs = Emile Godts (Leuven 1831-id. 1899) (5 statues: 55, 61, 62, 127*, 128*) Pe = Jean François Victor Petré (Leuven 1833-id. 1909) (2 or 6 statues: 131*, 132, 133?*, 140?*, 141?*, 142?*) Pu = Pierre Puyenbroeck (Leuven 1804-Schaarbeek 1884) (6 statues: 28*, 29*, 32, 33*, 36, 37*) Ra = Jean Hyacinthe Léopold Raynaud (Leuven 1832-St. Jans Molenbeek after 1895) (5 statues: 56, 57, 58, 129*, 130*) Sm = Jean François Smeesters (Leuven 1824-Schaarbeek after 1903) (4 or 5 statues: 3, 4, 109?, 133?*, 139) VA = Séverin Guillaume Van Aerschodt (Leuven 1819-id. 1885) (4 or 8 statues: 21?, 24?, 25?*, 30, 31, 34*, 35*, 38?) Vd = Jean Baptiste Verdeyen jr. (Leuven 1831-id. 1907) (3 statues or none: 125?*, 126?*, 147?) Vh = Léon Vanhemelen (Vanemelen) (Bekkevoort 1829-Leuven 1900) (3 or 4 statues 1, 2, 108, 109?) VL = Gérard Van der Linden (Antwerpen 1830-Leuven 1911) (2 statues: 107, 115*) Vm = Jean François Vermeylen sr. (Werchter 1824-Leuven 1888) (26 or 31 statues: 38?, 39, 42, 43*, 46*, 47, 84*, 85*, 86*, 87*, 88, 89, 90*, 91, 92*, 93*, 94, 95, 96, 97, 100, 101*, 125?*, 126?*, 134, 135*, 136, 137*, 138*, 140?*, 141?*) Vm&VU = Jean François Vermeylen jr. and Benoît Van Uytvanck (4 statues made in 1903: 106, 144, 145, 146) Wy = Henri Wynants (Weynants) (Leuven 1832-id. 1874) (2 statues: 5, 6)
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an asterisk * means that the original statue is no longer preserved, and that a replacement is made, the sculptor and year follows the *:
Am = Michel Amÿs (1 statue: 28) |
Thus {Ab*Vk75}[22] means that the original statue by Michaël Abeloos in 1975 is replaced by a new statue sculpted by Vandekerckhove, and that it is described as no. 22 in the book.
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