Kerk van Onze Lieve Vrouwe Ter Kapelle
Gothic parish church in the Marolles holding the grave of painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
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This guide to the Kerk van Onze Lieve Vrouwe Ter Kapelle in Brussels centers on a side-chapel grave marker for Pieter Bruegel the Elder, buried here in fifteen sixty-nine, and follows his son Jan Brueghel's decision to ask his friend Peter Paul Rubens, by then Europe's most sought-after painter, to create a memorial piece for the family plot. It traces Rubens's painting of Christ handing the keys to Saint Peter as it hung over the grave for roughly a hundred and fifty years. Find the memorial chapel to see what still hangs there today, toward the family plot.
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