Kolveniershof
Seventeenth-century guild banquet hall with a gabled south front, later an art auction room.
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This guide to the Kolveniershof in Antwerp follows the money through one guild hall, from a fifteenth-century city militia that grew into a club for the well-off to the lavish banquet room it built in the sixteen-thirties. It touches a royal birthday party in seventeen thirty-seven, an architect called in by the city council, and the years when paintings changed hands here. Best heard facing the broad south front, where the round window sits under its pediment.
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