DUBLCOQ, JEAN.— Belgian architect, b. at Mons on 25 March 1583, d. there on 25 January 1656. Having entered the Society of Jesus as a lay brother (1606), he devoted his entire life to the construction of churches and colleges.
His major works include the Jesuit churches at Luxembourg (which later became a cathedral in the 19th century), Arras, and St-Omer, as well as the chapels of the novitiate at Tournai and the college at Maubeuge.
His style was characterized by fidelity to traditional Gothic forms, tempered, however, by an increasing sensitivity to the new Renaissance and Baroque forms that were then penetrating Belgium from France and Italy.
BIBL.: J. Braun, Die belgischen Jesuitenkirchen, Freiburg in Br. 1907, pp. 46-95; J. H. Plantenga, L'architecture religieuse du Brabant au XVIIe siècle, The Hague 1926, pp. 77-80; P. Parent, L'architecture des Pays-Bas méridionaux aux XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Brussels 1926, pp. 73-80 and 96-143 and passim. Edmondo Lamalle