SAGRADA FAMILIA TOWERS textured impasto palette knife oil painting vertical art Ana Maria Edulescu

by Ana Maria Edulescu

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SAGRADA FAMILIA TOWERS textured impasto palette knife oil painting vertical art Ana Maria Edulescu

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Ana Maria Edulescu

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Painting - Oil On Canvas

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SAGRADA FAMILIA TOWERS is a vertical format detail from my SAGRADA FAMILIA BARCELONA AERIAL VIEW DAWN BY MOON, a textural impasto knife oil painting I created while ago.

I traveled to Barcelona many times ( first time in 2010 ) and was impressed by the amazing cathedral Sagrada Familia which inspired me myriad of paintings during the years.

On 30 November 1925, the St. Barnabas Tower was completed, the first tower on the left side of the Facade of the Birth. It was the only tower, whose completion Gaudí experienced.
The towers are as impressive from the inside as from the outside. To climb them you can use the stairs or an elevator. In the lower part of the towers, a spiral staircase leads to the top. They barely have any railings, because they are very steep. The stairs eye is very small.
If you arrived on top of the fourth part of the tower, you can go from one tower to another, whereby a kind of labyrinth in height originates.
In the upper part the bell is supposed to be hung up. In the inside there are overlapping galleries. This is where some of the faithful will follow the show.
In the following years after Gaudi's death his successor, the architect Sugrañes, finished the other three towers. Later, the construction of the almost identical four towers of the Facade of the Passion started. Their completion was in 1977. It will take a while until the towers of the Facade of the Blessed are completed, because they are much higher than the previously completed ones.

The bell towers are dedicated to the twelve apostles, especially the four oldest ones of which the outer ones are 94 metres and the inner onse 107 meters high. They bear the name and the respective on a pedestal seated figures of the apostles.

It's architectural style has been called ''warped Gothic''. '' Describing Sagrada Familia, art critic Rainer Zerbst said >.
The Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family, commonly known as Sagrada Familia, is a large Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi ( 1852 - 1926 ). Although incomplete, the church is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Thought construction of Sagrada Familia had commenced in 1882, Gaudi became involved in 1883, taking over the project and transforming it with his architectural and engineering style - combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms.
Gaudi devoted his last years to the project, and at the time of his death, in 1926, less than a quarter of the project was complete. Sagrada Familia's construction progressed slowly, as it relied on private donations and was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War. Construction passed the midpoint in 2010 with some of the project's greatest challenges remaining and an anticipated completation date of 2026 - the centennial of Gaudi's death. ''

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April 7th, 2021

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