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  The City Hall (Dutch: Stadhuis) of Antwerp, Belgium, stands on the western side of Antwerp's Grote Markt (Great Market Square). Erected between 1561 and 1565 after designs made by Cornelis Floris de Vriendt and several other architects and artists, this Renaissance building incorporates both Flemish and Italian influences. The City Hall is inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List along with the belfries of Belgium and France.[1]
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  But the threat of war prevented any progress on the project. The building materiasl intended for the city hall were instead used to shore up the city defenses. Not until about 1560 new plans were developed. In the meantime Gothic architecture had gone out of fashion. The new designs for the city hall were in the new Renaissance style. Completed in 1565, the building lasted hardly a decade before being burnt to a shell in the Spanish Fury of 1576. It was restored three years later.
  Renovations during the late 19th century by architects Pierre Bruno Bourla, Joseph Schadde and Pieter Jan August Dens drastically modified the interior. Much of the stately decoration dates from this period, as does a roof over what was once an open-air inner courtyard. A number of the leading Antwerp historical painters were invited to assist with the decorations. Henri Leys painted a series of murals depicting key events in Anwerp's history and portraits of former Belgian rulers for the Leys Hall.[2][3]
  The Antwerp City Hall became a figurehead for the new renaissance style in architecture in the Netherlands and Northern Europe. The city halls of Vlissingen and The Hague in the Netherlands and the design of the city hall of Emden and the portico of the Cologne City Hall (1557) in Germany and the Green Gate (designed by Regnier or Reiner of Amsterdam) in Gdańsk, Poland were inspired by this new style.[4][5]
  ^ De Inventaris van het Bouwkundig Erfgoed, Stadhuis van Antwerpen (ID: 4032) Invalid language code.
  ^ Frescos in the Leys Hall Invalid language code.
  ^ Rutger Tijs, Renaissance- en barokarchitectuur in België', Lannoo Uitgeverij, 1999, p. 105 Invalid language code.
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