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Antoni Gaudí

1852 - 1926

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Antoni Gaudí i Cornet ( gow-DEE, GOW-dee, Catalan: [ənˈtɔni ɣəwˈði]; 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Spanish architect and designer from Catalonia, known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works have a sui generis style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoni Gaudí has received more than 6,994,994 page views. His biography is available in 113 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 109 in 2019). Antoni Gaudí is the most popular architect, the 4th most popular biography from Spain (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Architect.

Antoni Gaudí is most famous for his architectural works. His most famous work is the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, which is a Roman Catholic church that he designed and built.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Antoni Gaudí ranks 1 out of 518. After him are Le Corbusier, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Vitruvius, Alvar Aalto, Imhotep, Mimar Sinan, Donato Bramante, Andrea Palladio, Leon Battista Alberti, Khufu, and Albert Speer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Antoni Gaudí ranks 1. After him are Henri Becquerel, Emperor Meiji, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Gojong of Korea, William Ramsay, Emil Fischer, Albert A. Michelson, Henri Moissan, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Joseph Joffre, and Francisco Tárrega. Among people deceased in 1926, Antoni Gaudí ranks 2. Before him is Claude Monet. After him are Rainer Maria Rilke, Mehmed VI, Harry Houdini, Emperor Taishō, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Mary Cassatt, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Camillo Golgi, and Sunjong of Korea.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Antoni Gaudí ranks 4 out of 3,355. Before him are Pablo Picasso (1881), Salvador Dalí (1904), and Miguel de Cervantes (1547). After him are Francisco Goya (1746), Seneca the Younger (-4), Averroes (1126), Francisco Franco (1892), Diego Velázquez (1599), Trajan (53), Philip II of Spain (1527), and Hernán Cortés (1485).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Spain

Among architects born in Spain, Antoni Gaudí ranks 1. After him are Santiago Calatrava (1951), Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850), Ricardo Bofill (1939), Rafael Moneo (1937), Alonzo Cano (1601), Juan de Herrera (1530), Josep Puig i Cadafalch (1867), Josep Lluís Sert (1902), Félix Candela (1910), Muhammad V of Granada (1339), and Josep Maria Jujol (1879).

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