Guild of Saint Thomas and Saint Luke
The Guild of Saint Thomas and Saint Luke (French: Gilde de St-Thomas et St-Luc), founded in 1863 during the first of the Malines Congresses, was a Belgian association for the study and promotion of Medieval art from a Christian perspective.
Activities[edit]
Papers were read at the regular meetings, scholarships were funded, and the guild made an annual study trip. In 1867 the guild organized an exhibition of medieval art in Bruges.[1] Until 1913, it published an annual Bulletin.
Members[edit]
The founders, Jean-Baptiste Bethune and William Henry James Weale, were both influential figures in the Gothic Revival in Belgium. The first president of the guild was the clergyman-scholar Charles-Joseph Voisin, with international vice-presidents Joseph Albert Alberdingk Thijm (from the Netherlands) and Franz Johann Joseph Bock (from Germany).[2] Jules Helbig also quickly became an influential member.
Arthur Verhaegen joined the guild in 1874 and helped organise that year's study trip, which was to Hasselt, Maaseik and Diest.[3] In 1881 he became editor of the Bulletin, and in 1884 secretary.
Publications[edit]
- Gilde de Saint-Thomas et de Saint-Luc, Bulletin des séances (1871) on Google Books
- Gilde de Saint-Thomas et de Saint-Luc, Bulletin des séances (1874) on Google Books
References[edit]
- ^ W. H. James Weale, Tableaux de l'ancienne école néerlandaise exposés à Bruges: catalogue (Bruges, 1867), on Google Books
- ^ Jan De Maeyer, "Pro Arte Christiana: Catholic Art Guilds, Gothic Revival and the Cultural Identity of the Rhine-Meuse Region", in Historism and Cultural Identity in the Rhine-Meuse Region, edited by Wolfgang Cortjaens and Tom Verschaffel (Leuven, 2008), p. 163.
- ^ Jan De Maeyer, Arthur Verhaegen, 1847-1917: De rode baron (Leuven University Press, 1994), p. 131.
Further reading[edit]
- Ellen Van Impe, "Regionalism, Rationalism and Modernity in the Early Twentieth-Century St Luke Movement", in Sources of Regionalism in the Nineteenth Century: Architecture, Art, and Literature, edited by Linda Van Santvoort and Tom Verschaffel (Leuven University Press, 2008), pp. 139-160.