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Temple de la Sagrada Famìlia

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Temple de la  Sagrada Familia

 

Original name:            Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família;

Location :                   Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain;

Architect :                 Antonì Gaudì;

Architectural style :  Modernism;

 

This monumental Church is Gaudi’s most famous work, the finest example of his visionary genius and world-wide symbol of Barcelona.

The architecture undertook this task in 1883 on the site of a previous neo-Gothic project begun a year earlier by Francisco de Paula del Villar.

Gaudì devoted his life, to the exclusion of all else, to carrying out this ambitious work which, due to his sudden death, was left unfinished. The temple was called “Cathedral of the Poor” as it had to be financed entirely by donations. The works continue up to this day thanks to the plans that the architect left behind.

The church was based on the plan of a Gothic basilica with five naves, a transept, an apse and an ambulatory. Gaudi’s ambition was to create a “20th century cathedral”, a synthesis of all his architectural solutions with a complex system of religious symbolism. There would be façades representing the birth, death and resurrection of Christ with eighteen towers symbolizing the twelve apostles, the four Evangelists, the Virgin Mary and Christ.

Gaudì wanted to stress the vertical dimension of the edifice by way of profusion of pinnacles and spiral-shaped towers covered in abstract patterns of glass mosaics and crowned by Episcopalian symbol of the cross.

Among the works completed by Gaudì are the neo-Gothic crypt, a part of apse and the splendid façades of Nativity which is rich naturalistic decorations such as animals ( a tortoise at the foot of the columns, as snail on one of the apse corners), plants and clouds. Of the four bell towers of this façades Gaudì only saw that of St. Barnabas completed in 1892. The other three towers were completed in 1930.

After Gaudì’s death in 1926 work continued on the church but it was interrupted in 1936 when the crypt and Gaudì’s notes and designs were burnt by Spanish Civic War shellings. The project was resumed in 1952 although the continuation of the work gave rise to much debate.Today, the constructed part is open to visitors as well as the small museum with drawings showing the construction process.

Cesaro Alessia

UPTA 2010/2011

 

 

 

 

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