DUQUESNOY, Jérôme, the Younger

Flemish sculptor and architect, son of Jérôme Duquesnoy the Elder. He was trained in Brussels by his father. In 1618 he went to Rome to complete his training with his brother François. He separated from the latter as a result of a dispute, and he seems to have traveled to Madrid, Lisbon and Florence. From 1641 to 1643 he worked again in his brother's studio in Rome. After his death, he returned to Brussels where he began a brilliant career. His brother's moderately BaroqueGLOSSARYThe period in art history from about 1600 to about 1750. In this sense the term covers a wide range of styles and artists. In painting and sculpture there were three main forms of Baroque: (1) sumptuous display, a style associated with the Catholic Counter Reformation and the absolutist courts of Europe (Bernini, Rubens); (2) dramatic realism (Caravaggio); and (3) everyday realism, a development seen in particular in Holland (Rembrandt, Vermeer). In architecture, there was an emphasis on expressiveness and grandeur, achieved through scale, the dramatic use of light and shadow, and increasingly elaborate decoration. In a more limited sense the term Baroque often refers to the first of these categories. The development of the Baroque reflects the period's religious tensions (Catholic versus Protestant); a new and more expansive world view based on science and exploration; and the growth of absolutist monarchies. works remained a model for him for the rest of his life. Together with Artus Quellinus I and Rombaut Pauwels (1625-1700), he helped spread this style in the Netherlands.

In 1644-1646 he sculpted four large statues of apostles for the naveGLOSSARYthe main interior space of a church building. It may have parallel aisles on each side, often separated from it by pillars, and is intersected by the transept, which cuts across it at the point where the choir begins. of the collegiate church of Sainte-Gudule (the apostles Paul, Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew). In 1651 he was appointed architect and sculptor of the Court. That same year, he sculpted a statue of St. Ursula for the Church of Our Lady of Sablon in Brussels, and in 1653 The Education of the Virgin by St. Anne for the collegiate St. Gudule, the current cathedralGLOSSARYThe principal church of a province or diocese, where the throne of the bishop is placed. For reasons lost to time and tradition, a cathedral always faces west - toward the setting sun. The altar is placed at the east end. The main body, or nave, of the cathedral is usually divided into one main and two side aisles. These lead up to the north and south transepts, or arms of the cross, the shape in which a cathedral is usually formed. of the city. As an architect, he built from 1651 to 1656 the chapelGLOSSARYa small separate place for worship, either part of a large church or a separate building. Notre-Dame of the latter.

From 1651, he worked mainly to build the mausoleum of Bishop Antonius Triest at St. Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent. This last work was not yet finished when it was accused of sodomy on two young boys of 8 and 11 years old. He was sentenced to death, and on September 28, 1654, tied to a post and strangled.