Dubroeucq, Jacques

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Dubroeucq, Jacques (or Jacques Du Broeucq) (b ?Mons, c.1505; d Mons, 30 Sept. 1584). Netherlandish sculptor and architect. He is believed to have been in Italy from about 1530 to about 1535, when he returned to the Netherlands to work on a major commission in St Waudru (Waltrudis), Mons, involving a huge rood-screen and other furnishings (finished c.1550). The screen, his masterpiece, was destroyed during the French Revolution, but much of the alabaster sculpture from it survives and has been reused in other contexts in the church. It shows how assiduously Dubroeucq had studied the work of his contemporaries in Renaissance Italy and reveals him as one of the outstanding Netherlandish sculptors of his period. In his day he also had a high reputation as an architect, but none of his buildings survive. Giambologna was his pupil.

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