# Confessional

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/veken-nicolaas-van-der-r78a3705037acec/confessional-rd0b8be39bd296b>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [VEKEN, Nicolaas van der](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/veken-nicolaas-van-der-r78a3705037acec>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oak wood

## Commentary

The Sint-Pieters-en-Pauluskerk \(Saint Peter&#39;s and Paul&#39;s Church\) is a former Jesuit Church in Mechelen. The church has no less than 14 confessionals. The Mechlin sculptor Nicolaas van der Veken and his pupils made the ensemble at the end of the seventeenth century.

## Related artworks

- [Confessional \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/veken-nicolaas-van-der-r78a3705037acec/confessional-detail-re79fb243659bb8>)
- [Confessional](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/veken-nicolaas-van-der-r78a3705037acec/confessional-r4f497cc6fa2418>)
- [Confessional](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/veken-nicolaas-van-der-r78a3705037acec/confessional-rb8e7e6450d1cda>)
- [Confessional](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/veken-nicolaas-van-der-r78a3705037acec/confessional-rd2a1a9e90a386e>)
- [Confessional](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/veken-nicolaas-van-der-r78a3705037acec/confessional-re0d71e507f878c>)
- [Confessionals](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/veken-nicolaas-van-der-r78a3705037acec/confessionals-r3fb88b68fccf3c>)
- [St Joseph and the Christ Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/veken-nicolaas-van-der-r78a3705037acec/st-joseph-and-the-christ-child-r8e4e6cfa8825ed>)
- [The Holy Trinity and the Christian Slaves \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/veken-nicolaas-van-der-r78a3705037acec/the-holy-trinity-and-the-christian-slaves-detail-r0e5a26e1e106d5>)
- [The Holy Trinity and the Christian Slaves](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/veken-nicolaas-van-der-r78a3705037acec/the-holy-trinity-and-the-christian-slaves-rc39fd5bb6f8c3b>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)