Church of St. Pierre. GHENT. 6. Route. 15

— Room A. G. Vanaise, St. Livinus curing the blind; A. Roll,
Bacchic dance: J. Rosseels, Landscape near Knocke; Count J. de
Lalaing, The colonel of cavalry (life-size); Coosemans, ‘La mare
aux corbeaux’; A. Verwée, Fighting bulls; X. de Cock, Road with
cattle.

The Bovnsvarp p’Horticutture (PI. C, 7; Hofbowwlaan),
ing behind the Museum and skirting the §.E. side of the Park,
is adj oined by the Royal School of Horticulture (founded in 1849}
and the University Botanical Garden. The latter is specially rich
in tropical plants from the Congo.

 

 

Picturesquely situated on a height named Mont Blandin, alittle
to the N.E., is the Church of St. Pierre (Pl. 41; D, 6), originally
the oratory of the famous Benedictine abbey said to have been
founded about 630 by St. Amandus, the Apostle of Flanders. The
abbey-buildings at one time extended to the arm of the Scheldt on
the N. The church, originally Romanesque, was destroyed by the
iconoclasts in 1578, but was rebuilt after 1629 in the Renaissance
style and was enlarged by an addition on the W. side and by the
erection of an octagonal tower, 185 ft. in height. The restoration
was finally concluded in 1719 by Matheys. The interior contains a
few pictures.

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Er. Quellin the Younger, Triumph of the Catholic religion.
— Norra At Van Thulden, Pictures representing the triumph of
Roman Catholicism (these all copies of works papnted by Rubens in 1628
et seq. for an e Convent of Lo near Madrid 20-CHorr, to the
right: Van Avont, Holy Family th dancing 3 P. Norbert van Reys-
schoot, Miraculous Draught of Fish S$ an a sory to a large landscape.
Also fi small pictures by Van Doorselae, of the period of the Spanish
supremacy, illustrative of the virtues of the miraculous image of the Virgin
in the chape el behind the altar. Over the door of the sacristy: Segher's,
Raising of Lazarus; De Crayer, St. Benedict recognising the equerry of
the Gothic King Totila.

The open space in front of the church has been formed by the
demolition of part of the old abbey-buildings. Another part serves
as a barrack. The landlord of the barrack-canteen shows a fine
{6th cent. cloister (fee).

From the Place St. Pierre we may return to the Gare du Sud
by tramway (No. 4; Pp: 54).

  
 
 
 
 

    
   

    

  
   

 

c. The Eastern Quarters of the City and the Suburbs.

In the Place d’Artevelde (Pl. D, E, 5), to the N.E. of the Gare
du Sud (p. 53), is the Church of St. Anne, erected from Roelandt’s
designs in 1853, and gaudily decorated by Canneel. — The Rue des
Violettes, diverging to the 8. from the square, leads to the —

Petit Béguinage Notre Dame or Klein Begynhof van Onze
Lieve Vrouw (Pl. B, 5, 6; comp. p. 77), the foundation of which
dates from 1234. It contains about 300 sisters, and has remained
unaltered since the 17th century. The scrupulously clean little