Barcelona Photoblog: nativity façade
Showing posts with label nativity façade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nativity façade. Show all posts

December 12, 2007

Gaudi Animals on Nativity Façade, Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain

Gaudi Animals on Nativity Façade, Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain [enlarge]

Weird creatures contemplate tourists from above while they visit Sagrada Familia cathedral. Animal sculptures, so common in Gaudi's art nouveau buildings, accentuate the mysterious halo around the temple mixing up Paganism and Christianity with unusual harmony according to my humble and lay appreciation of course.

December 11, 2007

Detail of Faith Hallway or Entry in the Nativity Façade, Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain

Detail of Faith Hallway or Entry in the Nativity Façade of Sagrada Familia cathedral by Antoni Gaudi, Barcelona, Spain

This is a detail of the Faith hallway or entry located to the right of the Nativity façade in Sagrada Familia. It is an image of Jesus in his carpenter work bench. To get a better idea examine other sculptures from this façade featured in Barcelona Photoblog in the past: Turtle Holding Pillar, Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, Herod's soldiers Slaying Children and Adoration of the Magi

July 05, 2007

Nativity Portal at Sagrada Familia: Equilibrium and Chaos

Nativity Portal at Sagrada Familia: Equilibrium and Chaos [enlarge]

I will be brief cause I am behind schedule in my daily posting. This is a detail of the Nativity Portal at Sagrada Familia. The façade as you know is full of sculptoric groups such as the one in the picture. Each of these groups is well balanced in composition and proportions but when you take some steps back and take a look at the whole building you face up with an authentic chaos of animals, saints and mythological beings. Maybe there is harmony in this chaos but if there isn't you never really care. The work of a genius sometimes is whimsical and hard to understand that's why we consider them unique.

December 09, 2006

Nativity Façade Detail in Sagrada Familia

Wingless Angels with Trumpets - Nativity Façade Detail in Sagrada Familia

This is a detail of the Nativity Façade by Gaudi. An explosion of imagination, the artist at his most. 

I like those wingless angels blowing the trumpets. Did you know that Gaudi firmly believed that angels had no wings and so it goes that no angel in the basilica is represented as such?

Composed by Portal of Hope, Portal of Charity and Portal of Faith and with Joseph, Jesus and Mary as the center in each of them, Nativity façade  is my opinion much more attractive to the eye.
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