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Plaster Cut-Away
A plaster cut-away of part of the interior of the cathedral.
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A plaster cut-away of part of the interior of the cathedral.
Here’s a quick physics idea: compression forces can be modeled as tension forces. And that’s exactly what Gaudí did in order to get the angles of his fantastic arches correct.
Take a close look at what’s going on here — this is a photograph that has been turned upside down.
Here’s one the most amazing parts of the whole tour: the cathedral is still under construction, so a small cadre of artists and craftsmen continue their work under the eyes of tourists. One critical component of Gaudí’s method was the use of plaster models — this workshop continues to produce those models so construction can continue.
Modeled after the stone masons and their relatives who worked on the cathedral.
This is the older end of the cathedral, completed while Gaudí was still alive. The stonework simultaneously evokes the heavy Gothic style and yet the proportions and naturalistic bent of the decorations also pull in the Catalan Modernisme movement.
Sunrise filters through to backlight a sculpture in the eastern end of the Sagrada Família.
I wish I had taken a wide angle lens, but alas, this was the best I could do.
The columns are modeled after trees — they are absolutely stunning in person.
These doors were solid bronze; they were the first things you passed through on the tour of this cathedral, which is still being built today.
The sunrise around the newer end of the cathedral.
The newer portion of the Sagrada Família is in the foreground, the older style from the early 1900s in the background.
