Klooster Street

Rubens was a collector and lover of all things beautiful. Nowadays, he would delight in Kloosterstraat with its numerous antique shops. He found one of the greatest treasures of his life there, his first wife Isabella. Here lay the house of her father, Jan Brant. The newlywed couple lived with him for a while. The cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius also lived on this street.
The street owes its name to the legendary Saint Michael's Abbey, which until 1124 was the only parish church in Antwerp. Rubens completed the altarpiece Adoration of the Kings here. The French took it with them and gave it a place of honor in the Louvre. After Waterloo, it ended up in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts.

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