St. Charles Borromeo Church, Antwerp
St. Charles Borromeo Church is a church in central Antwerp, located on the Hendrik Conscience square. It was built in 1615-1621 as the Jesuit church of Antwerp, which was closed in 1773. It was rededicated in 1779 to Saint Charles Borromeo. The church was formerly known for 39 ceiling pieces by Rubens that were lost in a fire when lightning struck the church on 18 July 1718.
The Baroque front on the Hendrik Conscienceplein.
Painting of the interior by Sebastiaen Vrancx, c. 1630
Painting of the interior by Hieronymus Janssens and Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg, c. 1660
Painting of the façade by Anton Gunther Ghering, c. 1665
Antwerp is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third largest city in Belgium by area at 204.51 km2 (78.96 sq mi) after Tournai and Couvin. With a population of 536,079, it is the most populous municipality in Belgium, and with a metropolitan population of over 1,200,000 people, the country's second-largest metropolitan region after Brussels.
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