The Brussels School is a style or school of sculpture from the Middle Ages to the present day. It originated in Brussels

Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...

 but has spread to France and Italy. It was born in the 15th century with the construction of Brussels's Hôtel de Ville and Claus Sluter

Claus Sluter

Claus Sluter was a sculptor of Dutch origin. He was the most important northern European sculptor of his age and is considered a pioneer of the "northern realism" of the Early Netherlandish painting that came into full flower with the work of Jan van Eyck and others in the next generation.Sluter...

's arrival in Brussels - he lived there from 1380 to 1385 before moving to Dijon

Dijon

Dijon is a city in eastern France, the capital of the Côte-d'Or département and of the Burgundy region.Dijon is the historical capital of the region of Burgundy. Population : 151,576 within the city limits; 250,516 for the greater Dijon area....

. Until the end of the Ancien Régime, the school's artists were above all from the Quatre Couronnés Guild and then the Académie royale des beaux-arts de Bruxelles.

It is especially known in civil sculpture, unlike the Antwerp School, which mainly concentrated on religious and devotional sculpture. The Brussels School produced notable sculptors such as Gérard Van Opstal

Gérard Van Opstal

Gérard Van Opstal was a sculptor from the Spanish Netherlands. A brilliant representative of the Brussels School of sculpture, he moved to Paris and became one of the founders of France's Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. The Louvre holds very delicate ivory sculptures by him of putti...

, Jérôme and François Duquesnoy

François Duquesnoy

François Duquesnoy was a Baroque sculptor in Rome. His more idealized representations are often contrasted with the emotional character of Bernini's works, while his style shows greater affinity to Algardi's sculptures....

, Gabriel de Grupello, Jean van Delen, Jacques Bergé, Laurent Delvaux

Laurent Delvaux

Laurent Delvaux was a prolific Belgian sculptor.-Life:Delvaux was born in Ghent. In Brussels he was a student of Denis Plumier from Antwerp, he followed Plumier to London in 1719 and collaborated with him on the funerary monument of John Sheffield, duke of Buckingham...

, Pierre-Denis Plumier, Marc de Vos (1650–1717), Pierre van Dievoet (1661–1729), Jean Cosyn, Jean van Delen, Corneille van Nerven, Jean Dekinder, Jacques Bergé, Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot

Jean-Baptiste Fleuriot-Lescot

Jean-Baptiste Edmond Fleuriot-Lescot or Lescot-Fleuriot was a Belgian architect, sculptor and a revolutionary...

 (1761-year II, guillotined), Godecharle

Gilles-Lambert Godecharle

Gilles-Lambert Godecharle was a Belgian sculptor, a pupil of Laurent Delvaux, "the only sculptor of international repute in Delvaux's retinue", who became one of two outstanding representatives of Neoclassicism in the Austrian Netherlands.In response to his early promise, empress Maria Theresa...

, and François Lejeune.