Sagrada Familia Nativity Facade
by Joan Carroll
Title
Sagrada Familia Nativity Facade
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph
Description
Wherever you might manage to get an aerial view of Barcelona, you will see the Basilica of Sagrada Familia towering over the city. But Sagrada Familia is still very much a construction site and any picture of the exterior includes scaffolding, towers, and cranes. This is the Nativity Facade which was largely complete at the time of Gaudi's death in 1926 and which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The interior was completed in time for its consecration as a minor basilica by Pope Benedict in 2010. Construction is accelerating these days in an attempt to have the basilica complete for the 100th anniversary of Gaudi's death in 2026. At that time the central spire of Jesus Christ is to be surmounted by a giant cross; the spire's total height (170 metres (560 ft)) will be one metre less than that of Montjuic hill in Barcelona as Gaudi believed that his creation should not surpass God's. Gaudi designed for this the Nativity facade to be an impressive iconography in which besides the religious figures, enormous quantities of vegetable elements have been carved making a link among the different religious motives in a imaginative explosion of life.
FEATURED PHOTO, Churches group, 11/26/22
FEATURED PHOTO, Spain Photography and Paints group, 3/25/15
FEATURED PHOTO, Spanish Theme Artwork group, 3/20/15
FEATURED PHOTO, Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery group, 3/18/15
FEATURED PHOTO, World Religious Architecture group, 3/21/14
FEATURED PHOTO, Places You Visited and Would Recommend to Others group, 3/21/14
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March 19th, 2014
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Joan Carroll
many thanks to the buyer from Mattawan, MI for purchasing a #JigsawPuzzle with this print!
Kay Brewer
Congratulations on your sale! This would be a puzzle that would keep you busy for a while!