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Article: The Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp.(Points Of Entry)(Column)
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- July 1, 1996
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* You come upon the Plantin-Moretus Museum via its entrance in Antwerp's Vrijdagmarkt -- a quiet square a few minutes' walk from the bank of the river Schelde, which provided the stage for sixteenth-century Antwerp to become the maritime trading centre of Northern Europe. The buildings in the Vrijdagmarket are heavily dominated by `new-old' replicas of the original Renaissance gable style and the odd earlier survivor, the legacy of a January 1945 V2 rocket attack that blew away much of the surrounding area.
Miraculously spared, in the corner of the square, stands the building whose site was acquired between 1576 and 1579 by Christophe Plantin, a native Frenchman and, ...
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