Another fascinating article, and of course a surprise as I keep expecting religious Gothic masterpieces. But commerce is its own religion too isn’t it. There is a story told me by some local Brussels friends that the master of works committed suicide when he realised the roof was not symmetrical about the main tower… don’t know if you ever came across that bit of apocryphal legend when you were there…
lol no I don’t recall that. The two sides were built like 25 years apart and I’m not sure why or what was going on with land acquisition or whatever in that area.
Another fascinating article, and of course a surprise as I keep expecting religious Gothic masterpieces. But commerce is its own religion too isn’t it. There is a story told me by some local Brussels friends that the master of works committed suicide when he realised the roof was not symmetrical about the main tower… don’t know if you ever came across that bit of apocryphal legend when you were there…
lol no I don’t recall that. The two sides were built like 25 years apart and I’m not sure why or what was going on with land acquisition or whatever in that area.