Lieven de Witte (ca. 1503 - after 1578,

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), known also as Livieno da Anversa, was a painter and architect, who practised at Ghent between 1518 and 1578. He devoted himself to buildings and other perspective subjects, but also produced historical pictures. The windows of the cathedral of St. Bavon in Ghent were painted from his designs, and he is said to have worked at the miniatures in the

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Breviary now in the library of

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at Venice. He produced a set of 200 woodcut images that depicted the

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in terms of a

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Seeing Beyond the Word: Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition
' by Paul Corby Finney 1999 page 398

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Lieven de Witte
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database. Attribution: * 1500s births Year of death unknown Early Netherlandish painters 16th-century Flemish painters Architects from Ghent Artists from Ghent {{Netherlandish-painter-stub