Cathedral St. Trinitatis
Baroque Catholic cathedral crowned by seventy-eight sandstone saints and a slender bell tower.
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This guide to the Cathedral St. Trinitatis in Dresden looks up, not in: at the crowd of stone saints lining its balustrades and the Italian sculptor Lorenzo Mattielli, who took on the largest commission of his life in the seventeen-forties. It follows him from a lost contest in Vienna to a riverside workshop across the Elbe, his son Francesco at his side, and what each saint was worth. Best heard from the square, where you can see the roofline and the tower together.
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