L'église Saint-Jean-Baptiste au béguinage à Bruxelles et son mobilier

Written by a team of historians and art historians, this book is the first comprehensive and critical look at one of the most beautiful Baroque churches in the Southern Netherlands and the works of art it contains. This monograph leaves no aspect of the monument and its history untouched and, in the introduction, raises the crucial issue of the conservation of church heritage. After a historical sketch tracing the development of the beguinage in the context of Brussels and the life of the Church, from its foundation in the thirteenth century to the end of the Ancien Régime, the architecture of the superb church is discussed and analysed in detail.