Brussels Carmel Explained

Order:	Discalced Carmelites
Established:	1607
Disestablished:	1785
Diocese:	Mechelen
Status:	Demolished
Architect:	Wenceslas Cobergher
Style:	Baroque

The Brussels Carmel was a Discalced Carmelite convent in the City of Brussels, founded in 1607 by Ana de Jesús at the behest of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella.^[1] The church and convent were designed by Wenceslas Cobergher in an Italianate style inspired by the Roman church of Santa Maria in Traspontina.^[2] The monastery was suppressed in 1785.

Further reading

• Germaine de Jésus, Le Carmel royal de Bruxelles (Brussels, 1948)
• Charles Terlinden, "Le Carmel royal de Bruxelles (1607-1657)", Cahiers bruxellois 2 (1957), pp. 11–35.

Notes and References

1. Cordula van Wyhe, "Piety and Politics in the Royal Convent of Discalced Carmelite Nuns in Brussels 1607-1646", Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique, 100/2 (2005), pp. 457-487.
2. "Cobergher, Wenceslas", in Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art, edited by Gordon Campbell (Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 388.