Gaudi and His Inspirations.
Title: Gaudi and His Inspirations.
Category: /Society & Culture/Environment
Details: Words: 1948 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Gaudi and His Inspirations.
Category: /Society & Culture/Environment
Details: Words: 1948 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Gaudi was born at the peak of Spanish disruption, the 19th century. Many wars broke out just before and after his 74 year lifetime, as well as the three Carlist wars that took place whilst he was alive.
He arrived in Barcelona at seventeen and stayed there for the majority of his life thereafter, it was 1889 and the Catalan Modernist style was just beginning to become widespread during his first few years in the city. Catalan
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a couple of decades sooner than he had anticipated. I think that the completion of the Sagrada Familia is important because it gives an insight to how stunning the piece would have been if it had been created precisely as the Gaudi had intended. Not even Lluis Bonet could have made the building so full of symbolism and images as Gaudi originally did, but a working building is better than another derelict piece of history.