Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Bruxelles, ville d'Art et d'Histoire (in French). Vol. 3. Brussels: Éditions de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. Heymans, Vincent (2011). Les maisons de la Grand-Place de Bruxelles (in French). Brussels: CFC Éditions. ISBN 978-2-930018-89-8. State, Paul F. (2004). Historical dictionary of Brussels. Historical dictionaries of cities of the ...
Fantastical, bizarre and weird creations, sculptures and pictures Museums of the Far East (Japanese Tower and Chinese Pavilion) (part of Royal Museums of Art and History) City of Brussels : Art: Fin-de-Siècle Museum: City of Brussels Art Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium: City of Brussels: Fine art
This multidisciplinary space was designed to bring together a wide range of artistic events, whether music, visual arts, theatre, dance, literature, cinema or architecture. The building housing the Centre for Fine Arts was designed by the architect Victor Horta in Art Deco style, and completed in 1929 at the instigation of the banker and patron ...
After the First World War, as donors and philanthropists as well as Belgium's famed instrument makers started becoming scarcer, only about a thousand instruments were added to the collections between 1924 and 1968. Until 1957, the curators at the head of the MIM—Ernest Closson (1924–1936), his son Herman (1936–1945), and René Lyr (1945 ...
The façade was restored in 1854–1858 by the City of Brussels' architect, Victor Jamaer , and again in 1907–1913 by the architect Jean Segers. [9] Nowadays, a Starbucks coffee shop is located on the ground floor of this building. 5 La Louve (Dutch: Den Wolf or Den Wolvin; "The She-Wolf") House of the Oath of Archers
The Heysel Plateau (French: Plateau du Heysel; Dutch: Heizelplateau) or Heysel Park (French: Parc du Heysel; Dutch: Heizelpark), usually shortened to Heysel (French:) or Heizel (Dutch: [ˈɦɛizəl] ⓘ), is a neighbourhood, park and exhibition space in Laeken, northern Brussels, Belgium, where the Brussels International Exposition of 1935 and the 1958 Brussels World's Fair took place.
The Stoclet Palace (French: Palais Stoclet [palɛ stɔklɛ]; Dutch: Stocletpaleis [stɔˈklɛːpaːˌlɛis]) is a mansion in Brussels, Belgium.It was designed by the Austrian architect Josef Hoffmann for the Belgian financier Adolphe Stoclet.
The Town Hall not only housed the city's magistrate, but also the States of Brabant until 1795. In 1830, the provisional government operated from there during the Belgian Revolution , which provoked the separation of the Southern Netherlands from the Northern Netherlands , resulting in the formation of Belgium as it is known presently.