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Picture Gallery. TOURNAI, 8, Route. 85
On the S.W. side of the Place is the former Cloth Hall (Halle
aux Draps; P).B, 3), a Renaissance building of 1610, restored since
1881. On the first floor is the Muntorpat, Muszus AND PIcTURE
GaLuBRy (Musée d’Antiquités et de Tableaux; adm. on Sun., 10-4,
free, other days 50 c.; catalogue, 1905, 25c.). Keeper, E. J. Soil.
On the Ground Floor is the ScuLprurr Room, with works by Tournai
masters.
First Floor. The VestTiBULE contains the recent acquisitions. — The
Satoon, lighted from the top and giving on the Grand’ Place, contains
about 380 paintings, including various modern works, chiefly by natives
of Tournai. To the right of the entrance: a. Flemish School (45th cent.),
Scenes from the life of St. Bernard; b. LZ. Gallait, Portrait of Galileo;
e. Flemish School (copy of a lost work of Hugo van der Goes), Descent
from the Cross; no number, Gaudenzio Ferrari(), Adoration of the Child;
m. Leander van Dalen, Family Eee s (1649); m1. J. D. de Heem, Still-life ;
- Th. van Thulden, Family i bb. Mabuse (J. Gossaert), Portrait of
elet 28 ith t the ene of St. Donatus; ee. Gallait, Mother
and sister of the Gallait, *The Guilds of Bru
honours to the bod Counts Egmont and Hoorn (
Son, Still-li fe; rr. Jan Stobbaerts, Do
of Tournai by the Princesse d
tholomew Altar (Colog
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44); Il. Joris van
nd cats; 2. Van Rese Defence
noy (1860); a3. Master of the St. Bar-
van der Goes), John the Baptist; b 3. Ch.
uit of Louis XIV Watteau, Flemish fair; e3.
hbishop of Cambrai. — The Van Lutsem bequest
is not yet on exhibition (new building projected).
ed EB the antiquities. W. Gallery (to the right) :
els and bronzes found at Tournai, Case 3.
, found i n the bed of the Scheldt between Tournai
and Antoing; Frankish aad lities, including reproductions of the articles
found in the tomb of Childeric (p. c a] reece bronzes. At the
end of the gallery is an altar, by Wic. reux (1733-98), a native of Tournai.
Cc e 23 SS. with miniatures, in-
ry VIII. of England, a ‘Livre d’Heures’
of the 14th century. Case 24. Ivory
carvings: Coronation of th (14th cent.), Binding of a copy of the
Gospels (11th cent.; authentic ty questioned). Case 25. Plaquettes and
bronze 1m 26. Carved gems. — E. Gallery. Wall Case 5. Palissy
at Tournai. Case 6. Valuable textiles; Chinese and
djoining , “Cope of Bishop Guill. Filastre of Tour-
ations of the Seven Works of Mercy. Case 8.
de in Tournai (p. 82). — In the desk-cases by the windows
n of coins and medals.
The isolated Belfry (Beffroi; Pl. B, 3), 236 ft. high, at the S.E.
end of the P dates from 1187, but was partly rebuilt in 1391 and
restored in 1 The spire is modern, A set of chimes, placed in the
tower in 1878, plays every half-hour. The ascent is recommended,
particularly for the sake of the view of the surrounding country
at steps; door-keeper at the entrance and custodian at the top,
20 c. each).
At No. 25 Rue de Paris, just to the S.E. of the Belfry, is a Gothic
House (now a café , — At No. 24 in the adjoining Rue de la Téte-
d’Or is the School of St. Luke (P1.8; B, 3), with a collection of works
by Tournai se ulptors.
The Rue du Pare and Place du Pare, to the S.E. of the Belfry,
bring us to the suppressed Monastery of St. Martin, the priory build-
ings of which (18th cent.), now serve as the Horen pe Vute (Pl,
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