LIÈGE 217

VISITORS’ CHECKLIST

87 km (54 miles) SE of Brussels.

Road Map E2. * 187,000.

£ @ 4 n Féronstrée 92;

(04) 2219221. ( La Batte (Sun).

_ Festival of the Republique

Libre d’Outremeuse (15 Aug).

http://www.liege.be

E Musée d’Ansembourg
Féronstrée 114. Tel (04) 2219402.

1–6pm Tue–Sat, 11am–4:30pm

Sun. & 8 http://www.liege.be
Set in the Coeur Historique,
this 18th-century banker’s
mansion contains authentic
rooms filled with high-quality
18th-century furniture and

E Musée Grand Curtius

Féronstrée 136. Tel (04) 221 6817.

# 10am–6pm Wed–Mon. & 9

7 = http://www.grandcurtiusliege.be

Reopened with great fanfare

in 2009, the Musée Grand

Curtius brings together the

contents of several Liège

museums to create one of

Europe’s best centres for the

decorative arts. The main

buil d ing is the striped red-brick

Maison Curtius, the home and

headquart ers of the wealthy

entrepreneur and arms dealer,

Jean de Curtius (1551–1628).

The current collection features

archaeological treasures from

Ancient Egypt and the

Roman and Frankish eras,

masterpieces of medieval

Mosan crafts man ship,

tapestries, cera mics

and paintings. The

museum contains

world-class collec-

tions of fine antique

glass ware; French

clocks dating from

1775 to 1825, in

lavish Louis XVI and

Empire styles; as well

as historic weapons

and firearms. It also

R Église St-Barthélemy

Place St-Barthélemy. Tel (04)

2502372. 
         

         10am–noon and 2–

         
         

         5pm Mon–Sat, 2–5pm Sun. & 7
         = http://www.st-barthelemy.be
         This 12th-century collegiate
         church has been recently
         renovated but its original
         Romanesque forms are still
         evident. Its treasure is an
         early 12th-century brass
         baptismal font at the western
         end. Believed to be the work
         of Renier de Huy, a famed
         goldsmith, the font was
         forged using the lost-wax
         tech nique. It is decorated with
         baptism scenes and supported
         by 10 oxen. At one time
         there were 12, representing
         the Apostles, but two were
         lost to the depredations of the
         Liège revolution of 1789–94.

         
         

work by Liège’s Renaissance
genius Lambert Lombard
(1505–66) and by its outstand-
ing 18th-century sculptor Jean
Del Cour (1627–1707). There
are also paintings by the
leading Belgian Neo-Classical
artist François-Joseph Navez
and a single work by Antoine
Wiertz (see p23). Other famed
Belgian artists such as Félicien
Rops, René Magritte, Alfred
Stevens, Henri Evenepoel,
Paul Delvaux and Constantin
Meunier are also represented.

Period furniture at the Museum d’Ansembourg

furnishings. Many of them

were produced locally by the

skilled craftsmen of Liège.

regularly mounts temporary

exhibitions of high inter-

national calibre.

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LIÈGE
Aquarium-Muséum 0
Cathédrale St-Paul 8
Église St-Barthélemy 7
Église St-Jacques 9
Le Perron 2
Musée d’Ansembourg 5
Musée de l’Art Wallon 4
Musée de la
Vie Wallonne 3
Musée Grand Curtius 6
Musée Tchantchès q
Place St-Lambert 1
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