Sagrada Familia

Sagrada Familia is shockingly beautiful. If you aren't prepared for it, you will literally gasp at its beauty. It will take your breath away. Not as... more

by Joan Carroll

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12.000 x 18.000 inches

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Sagrada Familia

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Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Digital Photograph

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Sagrada Familia is shockingly beautiful. If you aren't prepared for it, you will literally gasp at its beauty. It will take your breath away. Not as a religious building but as a soaring, glorious, light-filled interior space. It brought tears to my eyes, it was so beautiful. I spent my first 15 minutes inside this basilica with tears running down my face which was a bit embarrassing. It is difficult, if not impossible, to recreate this glorious light. I visited the church in 2006 when the interior was still a mass of scaffolding and construction. The interior had to be completed for a dedication mass in 2010 (to dedictate the church as a basilica) by Pope Benedict. Thus, in the interim, the interior was complete and although I knew this, I was totally unprepared for its beauty. The church was designed by Antoni Gaudi in the Modernisme style. Although incomplete, the church is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Construction of Sagrada Familia had commenced in 1882, Gaudi became involved in 1883, taking over the project and transforming it with his architectural and engineering style, combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms. Gaudi devoted his last years to the project, and at the time of his death at age 73 in 1926 less than a quarter of the project was complete. Sagrada Familia's construction progressed slowly, as it relied on private donations and was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War, only to resume intermittent progress in the 1950s. Construction passed the midpoint in 2010 with some of the project's greatest challenges remaining and an anticipated completion date of 2026, the centenary of Gaudi's death. In some ways, it is similar to many of the old classic cathedrals of Europe in that it took centuries to build. Describing Sagrada Familia, art critic Rainer Zerbst said, "It is probably impossible to find a church building anything like it in the entire history of art". I think truer words were never spoken!

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January 27th, 2014