The Holy Family IV: An architectural and artistic gaze

I guess you have stayed tuned lately with the previous posts. Let's take look at the Holy Family from an up close scope, shall we?

Initially the most part of the building is based on the romanic and gothic style. Its basement takes several of the romanic art's characteristics, such as: a façade, a core, a lateral door, a chapel, some arches and some buttresses. The façade for instance always renders some pictures of iconical religious characters, these can be found either at the entrance or at the lateral doors (like in the Holy Family precisely).

Later on the core represents the heart of the building. It connects each corridor with their doors, and its end gazes up with the apse and several chappels along the area. Nevertheless, there is a manifold ensemble of arches and buttresses, which hold on the balance of the entire building. The arches' shape might vary depending on the architectural style.

By the way, talking about the the core and the apse I think this is a great and oportonous chance to show you one of the concerts that took place right there short time ago. Here I offer you a short track sung by Mónica Naranjo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ3geGg_88k

Moving on to the gothic style, the Holy Family has some stained glass and beautiful rose windows. This is, as a matter of fact, this is one of the main characteristics of the Hall Family. Other features of the sacred building are located at the outside, like the flying buttresses and the pinnacles. The flying buttresses complete the initial job of the buttresses located down stairs on the top of the construction, whereas the pinnacles are just decorative pieces.