The Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp.(Points Of Entry)(Column)

History Today | July 1, 1996| | Copyright

* You come upon the Plantin-Moretus Museum via its entrance in Antwerp's Vrijdagmarkt -- a quiet square a few minutes' walk from the bank of the river Schelde, which provided the stage for sixteenth-century Antwerp to become the maritime trading centre of Northern Europe. The buildings in the Vrijdagmarket are heavily dominated by `new-old' replicas of the original Renaissance gable style and the odd earlier survivor, the legacy of a January 1945 V2 rocket attack that blew away much of the surrounding area.

Miraculously spared, in the corner of the square, stands the ...

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