St. Catharinakathedraal
Late-Gothic cathedral where whitewashed walls meet returned neo-Gothic saints and Stations of the Cross.
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This guide to St. Catharinakathedraal in Utrecht follows a single drawing made by the painter Pieter Saenredam in the autumn of sixteen thirty-six, when Protestants had just taken the church over. It moves through the Mengelberg sculpture studio's neo-Gothic makeover of the nineteenth century and the restorers who arrived in the nineteen fifties with that old sketch in hand. Best heard in the nave, where you can see both the white walls and the carved saints.
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