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Gaudí i Cornet, Antoni Placid Guillem



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5. Gaudí i Cornet, Antoni Placid Guillem (June 25, 1852 –
June 10, 1926) – often referred to as Antonio Gaudí – was a Spanish 
architect, who belonged to the Modernisme (Art nouveau) movement. As 
a child, Gaudí found he was too lame to play with friends of his own age 
because of rheumatism. The fact that he remained close to home allowed 
him substantial free time to inspect nature and its design. It was this 
exposure to nature at an early age that influenced him to incorporate 
natural shapes into his later work.
Gaudí, as an architecture student in Barcelona, achieved only mediocre 
grades. After five years of work, he was awarded the title of architect 
in 1878.
Gaudí was an ardent Catholic, to the point that in his later years, he 
abandoned secular work and devoted his life to Catholicism and his La 
Sagrada Família.
Gaudí’s first works were designed in the style of gothic and traditional 
Spanish architectural modes, but he soon developed his own distinct 
sculptural style. Some of his greatest works, most notably La Sagrada 
Família have an almost hallucinatory power.
Gaudí, throughout his life, studied nature’s angles and curves and 
incorporated them into his designs. He borrowed hyperboloids and 
paraboloids from nature and that allowed his designs to resemble elements 
from the environment. Gaudí died on June 10, 1926. He was buried in 
the midst of La Sagrada Família.
Gaudí’s originality was at first ridiculed by his peers. As time passed, 
though, his work became more famous, up to the point that he is now 
considered one of history’s most original architects.
6. Laurentian Library, the (Italian: Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
in Florence, Italy is famous as a repository of more than 11,000 
manuscripts and 4,500 early printed books. Built in a cloister of the 
Medicean Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze under the patronage of the 
Medici pope, Clement VII, the Library is renowned for the architecture 
planned and built by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1525).
Beneath the current wooden floor of the library in the Reading Room 
is a series of 15 rectangular red and white terra cotta floor panels. These 


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panels, measuring 8 feet 6 inches (2,6 m) on a side, when viewed in 
sequence demonstrate basic principles of geometry.
In 1571, the still incomplete Library was opened to scholars. Notable 
additions to the collection were made in 1757. The Library has a lot of 
well-known manuscripts, the earliest surviving manuscript of the Latin 
Vulgate Bible among them.


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