Columns and Ceiling, Sagrada Familia

            Wide-angle view of interior columns and ceiling, Sagrada Familia, Barcelona.

Many have seen photographs of the exterior of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família, the basilica based on Gouda’s architectural designs. After visiting, I realized that we are less familiar with the building’s remarkable interior. Perhaps this is because it is easy to photograph the outside but much less simple to photograph inside. The scale of the interior is gigantic, with gigantic columns leading to a vault high above. It is very complex and busy, with details everywhere — but not like those in older cathedrals.

Many of the forms are based on organic models. (It is said that there are almost no straight lines here at all.) You can see some of them in this photograph — the columns that evoke tree trunks, the floral shapes, foliage, and more. (This wide angle view adds an addition and likely unintended association — the spine and rib cage.) In many places the building is full of vibrant colors, many of them from light coning through stained glass. But in this particular area, the colors are more subdued, though they span a range form the warm colors in the distance to the cool, slightly blue tones of the upper columns.

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.

Taken on: July 25, 2023

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Camera: Fujifilm X-T5, f/2.8, 1/105 sec, 23mm (=35mm), ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

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