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RE: Neo-Gothic Church, far from 19th-Century England – Architectural Photography
Beautiful building. It reminds me of a church in Caracas, Venezuela: Our Lady of Lourdes Chapel in El Calvario Park. Built in 1885.
Interesting. The European colonizers went around the world, raping and pillaging and building churches.
LOL.
In fact, some Venezuelan churches were built in neo-Gothic styles due to the studies of some ecclesiastics. For example, the other church in Caracas called Our Lady of Lourdes has that architectural style thanks to the artistic vein of the priest Augusto Pavageau. He spent hours studying the Diccionnaire Raisonné de l'Architecture Francaise du XIe. Au XVIe. Siécle, by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, renowned French architect of the Gothic renaissance. He himself drew up sketches.
That's correct. They held the bible in one hand and a revolver in the other. Through treaties and threats of terror, they subjugated and "discovered" lands across the ocean.
This cultural critique got out of control but it's ok.