Samantha Heringuez

At the beginning of the sixteenth century, when the Low Countries open up to the Italian Renaissance culture, it is the artistic language of the Lombardy that they adopt in first, especially regarding the architecture. Thanks to the French that bring over of the alpine borders the picturesque Lombard style of the fifteenth century discovered during the Italian wars, the monuments of Flanders gradually dressed their gothic structure by ancient ornaments arranged according to the codes of the Northern Italians...