For all his stunning ingenuity, Gaudí did not emerge from a cultural vacuum, and he was but one—albeit the most extravagantly gifted—among an extraordinary generation of local architects who espoused the new credo of Modernisme, the distinctive Catalan variant of Art Nouveau, which drew heavily on the Romantic revivalist Renaixença (renaissance) movement of mid-nineteenth-century Spain.
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