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The biography of a twentiethcentury icon, 2004, etc. Gijs van hensbergen wrote gaudi s biography and the biography of picassos guernica. It is hard to understate gaudis impact on the world of modern art. Slaughter nov 27, 2019 last version gaudi a biography, who was antoni gaudi the son of a coppersmith antoni gaudi was in 1852 and took to architecture at a young age he attended school in barcelona the city that would become home to most of his gaudi a biography gijs van hensbergen on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying. But, as the successful author of a 2001 biography of the architect, antoni gaudi, he is well qualified. Gijs van hensbergen is an art historian and hispanist. Sep 01, 2017 gijs van hensbergens inspiring account of the sagrada familia begins with the following sentence.
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