Door knocker, Casa Calvet, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Iron knocker on the main front door, shaped like a louse representing evil and sin, at Casa Calvet, a Modernist building designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, built 1898-1900, commissioned by the widow of Pere Martir Calvet, on Carrer de Casp in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. On the front facade are sculpted heads of martyrs and a pulley device for winching furniture. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Iron knocker on the main front door, shaped like a louse representing evil and sin, at Casa Calvet, a Modernist building designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, built 1898-1900, commissioned by the widow of Pere Martir Calvet, on Carrer de Casp in Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. On the front facade are sculpted heads of martyrs and a pulley device for winching furniture. Picture by Manuel Cohen