AMUZ (Festival van Vlaanderen Antwerpen)
Early Baroque former monastery church turned concert hall for early and polyphonic music.
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This guide to AMUZ, the concert hall inside Antwerp's former Saint Augustine's Church, starts with a bill from sixteen twenty-eight, when the Augustinian friars paid Rubens, Jordaens and Van Dyck very different sums to paint the three altars in front of you. It follows what became of those altars after the church was deconsecrated in nineteen seventy-four, and why the city turned to the artist Jan Fabre in two thousand eighteen. Best heard standing in the middle of the nave, facing the high altar.
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