BRUYNE, Gabriel van den
(b. ~1500 Leuven, d. 1561 Leuven)
Flemish architect. He is known as the architect of a sacrament house (tabernacle) in the church of St James (Sint-Jacobskerk) in Leuven.
Tabernacle
In 1537, a new sacrament house (replacing an older one) was commissioned for the church of St James in Leuven. The contract with sculptor/architect Gabriel van den Bruyne stipulated that the tabernacle in the north transept should be a copy of the , by then famous, sacrament house in Leuven’s church of St Peter. In fact the result was a stylistic update.
Tabernacle (detail)
This skeletal tabernacle was built by Gabriel van den Bruyne, a Flamish architect, in 1536-38 for the Sint-Jacobskerk. The building is principally in the Gothic manner, with open tracery forms and multiple buttresses.