Church of Husks

History

The construction of the church itself began only in 1513, beside the monastery with the stripped style. It is of Flemish inspiration. Indeed, Marguerite of Austria which was, by its successive marriages, dauphine of France, infante of Spain, duchess of Savoy, then of 1507 with 1530 regent of the Netherlands, for the account of its nephew, Charles Quint, followed the construction of Husks since Malines, where it resided, and these is Netherlands that it sent, for the church, best artists and project superintendents.

Outside, the church of Husks presents a squat aspect and a blazing architecture. The frontage, is richly ornamented, in a style Renaissance. While penetrating, one is struck by the clear color of the stone and the light which let pass from large windows deprived of stained glasses. Inside (1532) are a Jubé and the Mausolée S of Marguerite de Bourbon, Philibert the Beautiful and of Marguerite of Austria, surmounted of their Gisant. Majestic monument drawn by the Flemish painter Jean Van Roome, the tomb of Philibert the Beautiful occupies the medium of the chorus. It comprises two superimposed stages and two lying. The upper part, out of white marble of Carrara marble, represents the duke in costume of pageantry, surrounded by angels of Italian style ( putti ). Supporting this part, ten adorable and gracious small female statues - the Sibyls - let foresee the lying one. The vault of the Virgin and the stalls are also decorated with control. The nave, arched warheads and flanked sides and vaults, is bathed of an abundant light which plays on the stone of a gilded white. With its naked walls, its powerful pillars and its colorless canopies, it is of a desired sobriety which contrasts with the jubé decorated one with stone laces.

The project superintendent Louis Van Beughem requested from a Flemish painter the paperboards of the stained glasses of the large canopies of the chorus which contains the tombs of the two husbands and the mother of Philibert, Marguerite de Bourbon. They were carried out on the spot by a workshop gathering painters temporarily - glassmakers of Borough (Jean Brachon), of Lyon (Antoine Noisin) and of Scotland (Jean Orquois), between 1527 and 1529. The five bays of the apse have a partly heraldic decoration and superimpose the 64 blazons of the ancestors and of alliances of the two husbands, others are in decorated losangée glaziery of the armorié ecu of Marguerite or her monogram. The canopy of the Assumption and the Crowning of the Virgin includes partly low, placed in opposite in front of the Apostles with the tomb of the Virgin, in the foreground, the portraits of Marguerite of Austria and Philibert of Savoy, knelt on praying mantis, accompanied by their patron saint.

Renovation work was engaged in 1996 to restore with the church of Husks, according to the indications of the time, its roof “with the Frenchwoman” with glazed tiles of four colors laid out in rhombuses.

The church of Husks, funerary ECRIN, was to also celebrate the glory of a regent of the Netherlands, magnifier the Houses of Burgundy, Habsbourg and Savoy. The church of Husks was used as refuge with the chouans during the revolution

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