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