The Life of Jesus is like a great horror film. It just keeps giving--and giving--and giving. I think this is why Gaudi gave special prominence to the Four Evangelists in the Sagrada Familia. He knew that the Evangelists had written a terrific screenplay. Look at Mary in the Merode Altarpiece. She is just sitting there--trying to do her reading or stitching or something--and a terrifying angel gets in her face. And look at elderly Joseph (on the verge of learning that his virgin-buddy is knocked up). Everything is immediately creepy. Next we have the Slaughter of Innocents; Herod, concerned about his claim to the throne, asks that all young boys in Bethlehem be corralled and murdered. Gaudi set this scene with one baby thrown up above a man's head; another baby is wriggling at the end of the man's foot. Gaudi devoted one half of his structure's facade to the Passion. Here, it's human failure after failure after failure. Peter denies knowing Christ. Judas betrays-with-a-...