Founded in 1607 by the Franciscans this was a source of learning about Ireland and the preservation of its history particularly in the Seventeenth Century. The College was responsible for the project to record the history of Ireland known as the Annals of the Four Masters. It also developed a type face for publications in Gaelic based upon manuscript sources. This typeface became the standard for printed books in the language for the next 250 years. The typeface is enscribed on this entrance door and says: 'Dochum Glóire Dé agus Ónóra na hÉireann' ('For the Glory of God and the Honour of Ireland'). The college became the Leuven Insitutue for Ireland in Europe in 1984 and was refurbished between 2004 and 2008 with support from the Government of the Republic of Ireland and the Northern Ireland Assembly. It is open to visitors and has a very fine exhibition on its history. Well worth a visit.
The Irish College, Leuven.
Founded in 1607 by the Franciscans this was a source of learning about Ireland and the preservation of its history particularly in the Seventeenth Century. The College was responsible for the project to record the history of Ireland known as the Annals of the Four Masters. It also developed a type face for publications in Gaelic based upon manuscript sources. This typeface became the standard for printed books in the language for the next 250 years. The typeface is enscribed on this entrance door and says: 'Dochum Glóire Dé agus Ónóra na hÉireann' ('For the Glory of God and the Honour of Ireland'). The college became the Leuven Insitutue for Ireland in Europe in 1984 and was refurbished between 2004 and 2008 with support from the Government of the Republic of Ireland and the Northern Ireland Assembly. It is open to visitors and has a very fine exhibition on its history. Well worth a visit.
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The Town Hall, Leuven 1448 - 1469, dominates the market square and is a fantastic essay in late gothic architecture. One of the side streets of the Great Begijnhof world heritage site in Leuven, Belgium, looking towards the church. The entrance to the Great Begijnhof world heritage site in Leuven, Belgium. This is one of the best preserved examples of the type with almost 100 houses and a church and conference centre within its walls. The area which declined until the 1960′s has subsequently been conserved to a very high standard and is now used by the university. The Tholos at the sanctuary of Athena Pronoia in Delphi, Greece, is about half a mile from the site of the famus oracle and was a circular building consisting of 20 Doric columns arranged around 10 Corinthian. Three of the Doric columns have been rebult from the ruins. Constructed around 350BC, it is situalted in a very dramatic setting on the side of a steep valley. It is a place of great power and character.
The Lion Gate at Mycenae in Greece was constructed in 13 BC and was once regarded as the begining of ‘architecture’ in that, for a long time, it was the earliest known use of decoration to enhance a built structure (in the European tradition). The sculpture is the basis of the crest of the RIBA. |
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