La Monnaie
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The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie is an opera house in central Brussels, Belgium. The National Opera of Belgium, a federal institution, takes the name of this theatre in which it is housed—La Monnaie in
The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie seen from the Place de la Monnaie/Muntplein
The first Theatre of La Monnaie (then spelled La Monnoye), c. 1700
Painting of the second Theatre of La Monnaie, c. 1825–1855
Contemporary illustration of the 1855 fire at La Monnaie, published in L'Illustration
Joseph Poelaert
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Joseph Poelaert was a Belgian architect. He was entrusted with important projects in Brussels, such as the Church of St. Catherine, the Church of Our Lady of Laeken, the Congress Column, the Royal The
La Monnaie
…on 21 January 1855, leaving only the outside walls and portico. After the fire of January 1855, the theatre was reconstructed after the designs of Joseph Poelaert within a period of fourteen months. The auditorium (with 1,200 seats) and the foyer were decorated in a then-popular eclectic style, a mixture of…
Joseph POELAERT architecte
Pedestal of the Congress Column, Brussels (1850–1859)
Palace of Justice, Brussels (1866–1883)