biography
| name: |
Gaudí (I Cornet), Antonio
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pronunciation:
[gowdee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1852–1926)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Reus, NE Spain. He studied at the School of Architecture in Barcelona, and became the most famous exponent of Catalan ‘modernisme’, one of the branches of the Art Nouveau movement. He is best known for the extravagant and ornate church of the Holy Family in Barcelona, which occupied him from 1884 until his death. |
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