Starting today, I’m going to be going back to the vaults and publishing pictures from some of my travels in the Upper Midwest in 2018. I visited the Minneapolis/St. Paul area for a friend’s wedding, and contributor Jeff Phillips and I visited the Co-Cathedral of St. Paul while we had some time off before the…
Tag: Cathedrals
The New Cathedral, Revisited
The New Cathedral is an interesting mix of architectural styles: there are certainly elements of hulking German or French Romanesque Revival on the exterior, but there are also Byzantine elements that remind me of the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople on the interior. Update: The sculpture was severely damaged and knocked off its pedestal…
Cathedral of St. Peter, Belleville
The Cathedral of St. Peter, the head church of the Diocese of Belleville, sits to the south of downtown. It is a Gothic Revival edifice, but with some interesting (strange?) Modernist renovations. Perhaps what is most notable is the lack of a transept, which usually takes the form of two wings protruding across the crossing,…
The Alley Behind the New Cathedral
I was alerted by friends and readers of this website of a fascinating lacuna from the history of the New Cathedral and its relationship to the Central West End. Several decades ago, the Archdiocese bought approximately twenty feet of the backyards of all of its neighbors on Maryland Avenue, and reimbursed the owners for the…
Interior, Cathedral, Milan
Update: These pictures are really blurry; I probably wouldn’t post these in 2020 or later. Sorry about the low quality! The interior of Milan Cathedral is probably the darkest place I’ve ever tried to photograph; it is downright cavernous with minimal light. I hope these pictures give you some sense of the experience. Huge paintings…
Cathedral, Milan, Italy
Milan’s cathedral is a glorious pile of stone, a strange mix of the Gothic style, which never moved too terribly further south on such a grand scale, and other more Renaissance style motifs, such as the half moon lintels above the five front portals of the church. No major cathedral is ever completely free of…
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Kansas City, Missouri
While the cathedral of Kansas City is much smaller than St. Louis’s own basilica on Lindell, I still found it a beautiful and unique structure. Firmly embedded in the fanciful eclecticism of the Nineteenth Century, it is an interesting mix of Baroque and even western American architectural elements. When built, it was the tallest building…
Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary, Naples
Around the corner, and through a gate, you walk up to the Cathedral of Naples. There is no broad plaza in this crowded city. In fact, I had my back to the wall of the building across the street, and I still couldn’t get the entire front of the building in my shot. Around the…
Florence Cathedral
Update: See some more pictures of the Duomo and the Pantheon here. Sigh, Florence’s cathedral is so much more awesomer than St. Louis’s Cathedral. But I guess not everyone can have a dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi.