Not Gothic Cathedral

[porphyry]

With all the recent discussion of the Gothic lately, I thought I would post this, which I discovered quite by chance today:





The photo was posted on a Russian site, so I could not make out anything more than that the Chruch in question is in Barcelona. It turns out to be from Gaudi's Cathedral, of course. The only further information I could find listed Guadi himself as the artist. Does that mean he sculpted it himself, I wonder? The date given was 1926.

My first reaction on seeing this was, "Ah, so he's wearing lorica segmentata! that's right! Blame it on the Romans why don't you?" Herod's men probably would have worn differnt armor.

Probably a very eccentric thought.

Comments

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

Gaudi employed local craftsmen, like a good distributivist should.

[petrusplancius.livejournal.com]

Not an eccentric thought at all, that's the first thing that struck me too; but of course the sculptor would have imagined Roman soldiesr' garb as being the standard military uniform of the time. This was an area in which Roman rule was in fact pretty fascistic.