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: 18th century engraving showing the planned final appearance of the Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp).
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: Artist vision of the completed cathedral (18th century, after Wenceslaus Hollar, 1649)
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