St. James Cathedral
Renaissance Florentine altarpiece from fourteen fifty-six inside a domed cathedral chapel.
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This guide to St. James Cathedral in Seattle follows a 1456 Florentine altarpiece by Neri di Bicci, painted for a merchant who never imagined it would end up here, and traces how his meticulous account books let historians identify his work centuries later. You'll also hear about the cathedral built around it, dedicated in 1907 under a grand central dome that Bishop Edward O'Dea wanted to rival anything in the West. A heavy snowstorm settled onto that dome on the second of February, 1916, an ordinary winter day inside an otherwise empty nave.
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