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Pere Jean’s Path, 1885, Paul Gauguin

Casa Vicens, Barcelona, Spain, 1883-1888,

Commissioned as a summer home for Manuel Vicens y Montaner, a stock market broker, this modernist building is considered one of Gaudí's first major projects and masterpieces.

The work belongs to the orientalist style, similar to Neo-Mudéjar architecture, although interpreted in Gaudí’s own personal way, with a uniqueness that only he knew how to add to his projects.

Architecte : Antoni Gaudi,

I wish they would realize that universal healthcare doesn’t mean they HAVE to get healthcare through the state, just that it is there. You can still pay millions of dollars out of pocket for your own treatment at a private hospital.

America actually has terrible healthcare compared to a lot of nations with socialized medicine:

Botanical illustrations taken from ‘Primi de Stirpium Historia’ by Leonhard Fuchs

Published 1549.

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