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Gijs van Hensbergen on Antoni Gaudí & the Sagrada Família
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Gijs van Hensbergen is a Dutch art historian, food critic, and Hispanist. He is the author of A Guide to Art Deco Style (1986); In The Kitchens of Castile (1992, reissued 2002); and the acclaimed biographies Gaudí (2001); and Guernica (2004). One reviewer wrote of his biography of Spain’s most famous building, The Sagrada Família: Gaudí’s Heaven on Earth, “This book solves many of the puzzles and mysteries that have surrounded the creation of Gaudí’s great, mad, intriguing dream…” In March 2013, Gijs was featured on “God’s Architect,” a CBS profile of Gaudí’s breathtaking Sagrada Família for 60 Minutes. He has been a fellow at the Harry Ransom Center and the London School of Economics, and lectured all over the world, including at Oxford University, the National Gallery in London, the Prado, and the prestigious summer school at El Escorial. After training at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London for a B.A., Hons., and Postgraduate research in History of Art, he worked for the Knoedler Gallery, in London and New York. Gijs lectures in architecture and leads specialist guided tours to Spain and the United States.
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