A walk through Leuven around 1525
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- An impression of the historic city center of Leuven (Belgium) around 1525. During the decades around that year, people such as Andreas Vesalius, Gerard Mercator, Thomas Moore, Desiderius Erasmus and Gemma Frisius resided in the city. It's the period around which the construction works of the towers of the main church (towers that were suppsed to be the highest in the world!) were stopped.
Is this impression correct? Well, it's an impression. The main buildings, such as the cloth hall, town hall, Saint Peter's church, the toll house, the 'Tafelrond' (Table Round), are probably correct. Also some houses (especially the ones at the market, plus some others in the adjacent streets) are probably correct as well, they are modelled according to historic drawings, prints or photo's. For the rest of the houses, we know that the location and width of the facades is more or less correct, but the rest is merely imagination... even though we know that most of the houses in that era were made of wood and renders, masonry was limited to the base of houses and intermediate (fire)walls between houses. Rich people could afford houses in brickwork and stone. But still, even though it looks historically correct, it remains partially imagination... but it's also difficult to prove that this 'phantasy' is wrong ;)
A peculiar point is the graveyard surrounding the church. In those days, mostly no big burial monuments were erected on cemeteries. Usually wooden crosses were placed, and they disappeared rather quickly. Cemeteries were often used as orchards, the presence of fruit trees on cemeteries was quite normal. So we also placed on here, even though there is no historic proof for this.
I noticed some bugs in the film, but I hope you'll enjoy it anyhow!
© Yves Vanhellemont
Leuk om deze virtuele wandeling door Leuven mee te beleven. Groetjes van Eddy
Prachtige en zeer leerrijke animatie!
This kind of awesome video really deserves some sweet 360° video! I once saw a similar video about Paris where they had added some ambient noises like the sound of fish market, with merchants yelling, crowds talking, etc. They also had some stands, wheel barrows, other items to fill in the streets a bit. You might agree right now a lot of the houses look very clean. I would suggest using some decalls like dirt and moss you could layover the stones and wood. And maybe some dirt and horse dung for the cobblestones ;)
Indeed, making things dirty is easy in real life, but not on computer. So I left these things out in this (rapidly made!) version. It'll improve (of I find the time).
What is your source for the tracery of St. Peter's church? The church currently has different tracery designs, and I was wondering whether you decided to go with this design for ease of modelling, or because the originals were replaced.
I suppose that originally the tracery was the same. The first big restoration of the church happened in the 2nd half of 19th century, by Lavergne and Frische, who were very faithful to the original design. But the tracery in the video is different, because it was easier for the modellisation. I didn't expect that someone would look into such detail ;)
I see, I'm glad, i like the tracery of St. Peter's very much. I'd love to learn more about how you made this, would you consider making a video, or giving a presentation where you go through the process? Voor de duidelijkheid, ik ben van regio Leuven, maar ik houd het in het Engels zodat iedereen kan meelezen. Prachtig werk!
mmm, an instruction video is difficult, but presentations, maybe :) Actually, this historic research is the most difficult in such a project, mdellisation is... modellisation. But the input is tricky.
C'était le temps de la Renaissance, et des grands Humanistes : Érasme, Juste-Lipse, Mercator, Vésale, etc, etc, ...
What kind of programs did you use to make this?
start off tavelling is too slow and annoying sound of footsteps .Hope this helps to improve.
can you give me the sound file of the bells pls?
or a link?
When did the small houses against the church on the side of the Brusselsestraat appear?
That part stayed cemetary until the 17th century, after which this part was gradually filled with houses. Only the two houses, nearest to the town hall, still have (more or less) their original appearance, the rest of the houses were altered, mainly in the 19th century, to their actual appearance.
Hi Yves, zal je een mailtje sturen, denk dat je met de juiste software veel betere resultaten kan weergeven... ;-)
Ik leef in blijde verwachting :)
schitterend !