• Thumbnail for Alphonse Balat
    Alphonse Hubert François Balat (French pronunciation: [alfɔ̃s ybɛʁ fʁɑ̃swa bala]; 15 May 1818 – 16 September 1895) was a Belgian architect. Balat was...
    8 KB (961 words) - 18:34, 9 March 2024
  • Alphonse Varney (1811–1879), French conductor Alphonse Révillon d'Apreval (1851–1915), French botanical illustrator and lithographer Alphonse Balat (1819–1895)...
    15 KB (1,836 words) - 16:11, 2 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal Palace of Brussels
    the king's architect Alphonse Balat, imposing rooms like the Grand Staircase, the Throne Room and the Grand Gallery were added. Balat also planned a new...
    41 KB (4,816 words) - 17:47, 2 March 2024
  • Balat is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alphonse Balat (1818–1895), Belgian architect Isaiah Balat (1952–2014), Nigerian politician...
    503 bytes (65 words) - 15:05, 27 January 2021
  • Thumbnail for Royal Greenhouses of Laeken
    II, originally designed by the architect Alphonse Balat, and built between 1874 and 1905. Following Balat's death in 1895, Leopold called upon the architects...
    17 KB (1,821 words) - 16:28, 27 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Palace of Laeken
    destroyed by fire in 1890, and was rebuilt and extended by the architect Alphonse Balat. The French architect Charles Girault gave it its present outline in...
    16 KB (1,517 words) - 17:44, 2 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Laeken
    destroyed by fire in 1890, and was rebuilt and extended by the architect Alphonse Balat. The French architect Charles Girault gave it its present outline in...
    11 KB (912 words) - 13:33, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gochenée
    the 18th century. The former village school is from 1854. Architect Alphonse Balat was born in Gochenée. Menne, Gilbert, ed. (2014). Le grand guide de...
    2 KB (77 words) - 18:35, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Art Nouveau
    style's landmarks. Horta's architectural training was as an assistant to Alphonse Balat, architect to King Leopold II, constructing the monumental iron and...
    249 KB (27,014 words) - 09:57, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pavilion of Human Passions
    Lambeaux's sculpture The Human Passions on the recommendation of his teacher Alphonse Balat, King Leopold II's favourite architect. The small pavilion of classical...
    21 KB (1,999 words) - 16:40, 28 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oldmasters Museum
    for Fine Arts). It was designed by the architect Alphonse Balat and funded by King Leopold II. Balat was the king's principal architect, and the building...
    9 KB (684 words) - 01:37, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Beaux-Arts architecture
    figurehead of the Beaux-Arts around the 20th century. After the death of Alphonse Balat, he became the new and favourite architect of Leopold II of Belgium...
    47 KB (4,834 words) - 17:22, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Victor Horta
    taken on as an assistant by his professor Alphonse Balat, the architect to King Leopold II. Horta worked with Balat on the construction of the Royal Greenhouses...
    38 KB (4,450 words) - 11:40, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Château d'Hélécine
    remained, and in 1870 was restructured by the architect Alphonse Balat in its present form. Balat laid out the surrounding park at the same time. The house...
    1 KB (130 words) - 23:05, 15 November 2023
  • February 8 – John Ruskin, English polymath and critic (died 1900) May 15 – Alphonse Balat, Belgian architect (died 1895) May 20 – Sir Horace Jones, Architect...
    3 KB (247 words) - 05:57, 10 March 2022
  • Thumbnail for Laeken Cemetery
    of Belgium, consecrated in 1872. Personalities buried there include: Alphonse Balat (1818–1895), architect Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802–1870), violinist...
    4 KB (317 words) - 13:43, 6 March 2024
  • Shaver Allen (1860–1934), American Henry Austin (1804–1891), American Alphonse Balat (1819–1895), Belgian William Swinden Barber (1832–1908), English Sir...
    48 KB (5,658 words) - 00:27, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal Castle of Ciergnon
    by King Leopold II. The edifice was designed by his court architect Alphonse Balat. Since then, it has always served as a holiday retreat to the royal...
    3 KB (285 words) - 11:33, 3 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Art Nouveau in Brussels
    in Brussels. He subsequently worked for the neoclassical architect Alphonse Balat, who was in the midst of constructing the enormous glass and iron Royal...
    29 KB (3,477 words) - 09:10, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Council of State (Belgium)
    Council is located in the Palace of the Marquess of Assche built by Alphonse Balat. After Belgium gained its independence from the Netherlands, the Belgian...
    9 KB (1,250 words) - 07:20, 8 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Meise Botanic Garden
    the castle, the Victorian Balat Greenhouse was placed. This greenhouse was designed in 1853 by the architect Alphonse Balat and transported from its original...
    9 KB (996 words) - 13:24, 7 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jan August Hendrik Leys
    daughter and of his fellow artists such as the portrait of the architect Alphonse Balat. Leys influenced many young Belgian artists. Some, such as Joseph Lies...
    13 KB (1,733 words) - 14:41, 25 April 2024
  • 1856 en 1858 he had a new palace built in Brussels by the architect Alphonse Balat. After second world war the Hôtel van der Noot d'Assche [nl] was sold...
    3 KB (324 words) - 09:02, 25 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for House van der Noot
    van der Noot, 8th Marquess of Assche had a luxurious palace built by Alphonse Balat in Brussels, today this palace is the seat of the Council of State....
    7 KB (796 words) - 00:49, 17 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
    de la Régence/Regentschapsstraat in 1887, giving a new purpose to Alphonse Balat's Palace of Fine Arts (French: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Dutch: Paleis voor...
    21 KB (2,400 words) - 15:04, 1 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marquess of Assche
    The palace of the Marquess of Assche, in Brussels, by architect Alphonse Balat, originally a private residence, since 1948 seat of a superior court: the...
    3 KB (375 words) - 10:24, 17 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Guillaume de Groot
    Art, atop the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, for architect Alphonse Balat, c. 1875 Heroic figure of Labour for Tournai railway station, 1881 Bronze...
    2 KB (159 words) - 05:17, 10 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Château royal d'Ardenne
    the new Château Royal d'Ardenne. The building by his court architect Alphonse Balat was completed in 1891. The gardens were created by the French landscape...
    5 KB (706 words) - 14:50, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tilman-François Suys
    the younger generation such as Hendrik Beyaert, Joseph Poelaert and Alphonse Balat. Through his teaching he deeply influenced later Belgian architecture...
    7 KB (703 words) - 18:34, 4 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mirwart Castle
    country residence. In the middle of the 19th century it was renovated by Alphonse Balat, architect to King Leopold II of Belgium. After World War II the castle...
    4 KB (500 words) - 10:32, 6 November 2023