Monday, February 18, 2019

St. JULIAN OF THE FLEMINGS

S. GIULIANO DEI FIAMMINGHI
Chapel of the XI century known as St. Julian Hospitaller for the Flemings of Flanders
Restored and rededicated in 1491 after years of neglect
Renovated in the years 1680/82
Restoration and decoration of the vault 1713/20
Since 1831 it has become the Royal Belgian Church and acquired its present name, as well as the alternative name of S. GIULIANO DEI BELGI (St. Julian of the Belgian People)
Restorations in 1852 to 1860

Copy of the statue of elm wood, kept in the meeting room, “St. Julian” about 1645 b the Dutchman Judocus Van Haerts
Symbols of the four cities of Flanders: Bruges and Franc de Bruges on the right, Ghent and Ypres on the left

FLOOR
There are “Twenty-six tombstones” arranged radially

VAULT
At the center “Glory of St. Julian” about 1718 by the Englishman William Kent (about 1685/1748)
In the pendentives tempera on canvas “Allegories of Ypres, Bruges, Ghent and County of Flanders” of the mid-nineteenth century

RIGHT SIDE
Marble medallion with “Portrait of the Belgian painter Jacques Sturm” 1844 by Joseph Jean Tuerlinckx (1809/73)

RIGHT ALTAR
Altarpiece “Sts. Peter and Paul” early eighteenth century by an anonymous Roman artist

MAIN ALTAR
Altarpiece “Conversion of St. Julian” about 1695 by the Dutchman Theodor Helmbrecker (1633/96)
In the lunette polychrome glass “St. Joseph with the Child and Angels” 1851 by the Belgian Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (1814/91)
On the sides nineteenth-century tombs of the Belgian Minister Henry of Luxembourg to the right and of General Albert Prisse to the left

TO THE LEFT OF THE MAIN ALTAR
“Funeral Monument of Ludovica Timbrune-Valence” 1828 by Mathias Kessels (1784/1836) with the Countess meeting the deceased daughter in the form of an angel

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