Cathedral of Our Lady
Soaring Gothic cathedral where craft guilds once kept altars, beside a legendary wrought-iron well.
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This guide to the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp follows Quentin Matsys, a painter whose life the city tells as a love story about a forge, a brush and a disapproving father. It weighs that legend against a sharper-tongued Flemish chronicler, and steps inside the church as a working place where every craft guild kept its own altar. Start by the front wall, within sight of the old iron well-head in the square.
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