Antwerp, Belgium

Church of St. Charles Borromeo

Church of St. Charles Borromeo, Antwerp

A High Baroque Jesuit church built between 1615 and 1621 on Hendrik Conscienceplein, modelled on the Gesu in Rome. Peter Paul Rubens helped shape its facade and once supplied thirty-nine ceiling paintings, lost to a lightning fire in 1718.

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Location

Coordinates: 51.220964, 4.404783

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