Antoni Gaudí: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Antonio Gaudí y Cornet • Antoni Gaudí i Cornet
Born	June 25, 1852 • Reus • Spain
Died	June 10, 1926 (aged 73) • Barcelona • Spain
Notable Works	Casa Batlló • Casa Milá • Colonia Güell Church • Sagrada Família
Movement / Style	Art Nouveau

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Portrait of Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect, with a full beard and mustache, wearing a suit and looking slightly to the side. Photo by Pablo Audouard.

Facade of Palau Guell in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudi, featuring ornate ironwork, arched doorways, and rows of tall windows.

Casa Vicens in Barcelona, a colorful and ornate modernist building with patterned tiles and intricate ironwork, designed by Antoni Gaudi.

Episcopal Palace of Astorga, Spain

Exterior view of the Crypt in Colonia Guell, designed by Antoni Gaudi, showing unique brick arches and stained glass windows surrounded by trees in Catalonia, Spain.

Aerial panoramic view of Park Guell in Barcelona, Spain, showing colorful buildings, ornate entrance pavilions, curving pathways, and lush gardens surrounded by wooded hills.

Park Güell, Barcelona

Antoni Gaudi's colorful mosaic lizard-dragon fountain, known as El Drac, decorates the main entrance steps of Park Guell in Barcelona, Spain.

Casa Batllo in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudi and Josep Maria Jujol, features a colorful facade with curved balconies and mosaic tiles in the Modernisme style.

Upper facade of Casa Batllo in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudi, featuring colorful mosaic tiles, organic shapes, and balconies resembling bones.

Stylized illustration of the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona with sunburst lines and blue labels reading "Sagrada Familia" above the building.

The Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona is shown in color with a blue banner reading "Impossible Building?" across a grayscale background of trees.

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