Tabernacle
by BRUYNE, Gabriel van den, Marble
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.