page_title: Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp)
section_title: Our Lady’s church
hierarchical_section_title: Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp) / History / Our Lady’s church
caption_attribution_description: Frans Hogenberg: The Calvinist Iconoclastic Riot of August 20, 1566 (Hamburg, Kunsthalle). Text: Nach wenigh Predication / Die Calvinische Religion / Das bildenssturmen fiengen an / Das nicht ein bildt davon bleib stan / Kap Monstrantz, kilch, auch die altar / und wess sonst dort vor handen war / Zerbrochen all in kurtzer stundt / Gleich gar vil leuten das ist kundt. Anno Dnj. M. D. LXVI XX Augusti
context_page_description: The Cathedral of Our Lady is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium. Today's see of the Diocese of Antwerp started in 1352 and, although the first stage of construction was ended in 1521, has never been 'completed'. In Gothic style, its architects were Jan and Pieter Appelmans. It contains a number of significant works by the Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, as well as paintings by artists such as Otto van Veen, Jacob de Backer and Marten de Vos.
  The belfry of the cathedral is included in the Belfries of Belgium and France entry in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
context_section_description: Becoming more popular, the chapel is demolished and replaced by a much bigger romanesque church. The three-aisled nave corresponded in width to the cathedral's current central aisle, the inner and partly the middle aisles. The cloverleaf-shaped eastern section with a full aisle had a width of no less than 42 m. In 1294, the church gets a novum opus extension, indicating the first signs of gothic architecture.
caption: Print of the destruction in the church, the "signature event" of the Beeldenstorm, 20 August 1566, by Frans Hogenberg[4]
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