Door from Luxembourg city, rue Porte-Neuve

Doors 8 and 9, which come from the city of Luxembourg, are reminiscent of the best examples of Mosan art. They mark the end of a good interpretation of this style in our country and are located, the first with its chiselled knocker, in the rue de la Loge, the second in the rue de la Porte-Neuve. From the end of the 18th century onwards, the good traditions of the trades began to disappear. The artists ceased to draw on the living documents that surrounded them. Soon inundated by cheap publications of little artistic value, they found it more convenient to use what was offered to them as being more in keeping with the spirit of the new times. Hence all those horrors of glass doors and tortured lines whose unbelievable ugliness we see spread across the city and the countryside. (N. Ries, Aug. van Werveke, Les Cahiers luxembourgeois, Janvier 1925/III, pp.229-230 [translated from French])