Casa Batllo

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Casa Batllo

Uploaded: June 07, 2010

Description

Casa dels ossos (House of Bones)is an another remarkable building designed by Antoni Gaudi. It was built in 1877. It has a skeletal organic quality, facade decorated with a mosaic of broken ceramic tiles, arched roof linked to the back of a dragon or dinosaur and all the building is a flowing sculpted stone work. The house was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona. The common theory claims that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the sword of Saint George, that is a patron saint of Catalonia, which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.
Barcelona, Spain.


Comments

Sharon C. Hinze June 07, 2010

Another glorious piece of architecture! Love the colors and clarity here.
Sharon #1276226

Janice Mezzacappa June 07, 2010

Outstanding architectural capture love the shapes, textures and colors...awesome work Renata!! #8671062

Randy A. Myers June 07, 2010

Nice job of capturing the oddity of this place. Good job. #8671090

Husain Akhtar June 07, 2010

Amazing structure and history! Fantastic image! #8671101

Bojan Bencic level-classic June 07, 2010

Amazing place and a great capture, Renata. Thanks for the info - it is remarkable. #8671122

Jeff Robinson level-deluxe June 07, 2010

Fantastic capture Renata! Jeff #8671326

Patrick Rouzes level-classic June 07, 2010

Exceptional tones, colors, detail, clarity, textures, pov & lovely lighting here, Renata! Glorious image & work, as always! Thanks for another teaching lesson too! #8671381

Douglas Pignet June 07, 2010

Beautiful structure and wonderful capture, great lighting and colors, well done #8671438

JudyAnn Rector level-classic June 07, 2010

Very interesting, Renata... you captured it beautifully! #8671580

Mariann Kovats level-classic June 07, 2010

Beautiful building and you captured its beauty very well, Renata! I love your POV, comp. colors, and details! I hope we'll see this again. #8671603

John Connolly June 07, 2010

A supeb capture of this fantastic architecture Renata! The color and textures are just amazing! #8671802

David Phalen June 07, 2010

Terrific light, tones and details!! #8674731

Barbara Waldoch June 08, 2010

Beautiful wall and capture, Renata!
Congratulations on your Finalist! #8677196

Randy D. Dinkins level-classic June 09, 2010

Very cool, great capture, perfect MT entry! #8682937

Patti Coblentz June 11, 2010

Remarkable building and story behind it...great work on your presentation of it, Renata!

Patti #8688527

Anna Krukowska June 20, 2010

Beautiful building and postprocessing! #8707081

Laurence Saliba level-classic June 29, 2013

So Lovely!!! Congrats again!! #10748805

Merna L. Nobile July 08, 2013

With half of the year gone, I am sure that many beautiful photographs have been taken and entered on Better Photo, including yours.
CONGRATULATIONS for a successful month of May, 2013. Merna
#10760477

Renata Gusciora July 14, 2013

Thank you everybody a lot for such kind comments!!!:-) #10767078

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