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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 148 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. жүктеу/скачать 0,65 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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