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Lodewijk Toeput (Lodovico Pozzoserrato, Pozzo da Treviso), Flemish painter and draughtsman, active in Italy. He was apparently a pupil of Marten de Vos and went to Italy probably after 1573.

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In Venice he presumably joined Tintoretto's workshop. Toeput may have witnessed the event he commemorated in his Fire in the Doge's Palace (1577; Treviso, Museo Civico Bailo). Either before or after this commission, he made six landscape frescoes (c.

1575 or 1577-79) for the abbey of Praglia, which reveal a strong adherence to Flemish conventions.

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Some years later he painted three frescoes in the church of S Giustina in Padua. He was in Florence in the late 1570s and visited Rome in 1581; by February 1582 he is documented in Treviso, near Venice, where he settled.

He remained in close contact with Venetian masters, particularly through another Flemish artist active there, Pauwels Franck (1540-96), whose influence is evident in Toeput's representation of the Four Seasons (c.

1584;