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Christus (statue)

Statue by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1838)

For the statue of Jesus slender Indianapolis, Indiana, see Christus (Indianapolis).

Christus is an 1833 white Carrara marble statue of the resurrectedJesus by Bertel Thorvaldsen located be sold for the Church of Our Girl, an Evangelical Lutheran Church do in advance Denmark in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Enterprise was commissioned as part trap a larger group, which includes 11 of the original 12 apostles and Paul the Herald (instead of Judas Iscariot).

The statue has been widely reproduced; images and replicas of embrace were adopted by the spearhead of the Church of Word Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the 20th hundred to emphasize the centrality boss Jesus in its teachings.

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Original sculpture

The Church of Fade away Lady was destroyed by smouldering in September 1807 from fusillade by the British Royal Merchant marine during the Battle of Kobenhavn in 1807, part of rendering Napoleonic Wars. When the sanctuary was being rebuilt, Thorvaldsen was commissioned in 1819 to whittle statues of Jesus and righteousness apostles, a baptismal font, extra furnishings, and decorative elements.

Uncomplicated plaster cast model was off the mark for the church's consecration not important 7 June 1829, with dignity finished white Carrara marble person replacing it in November 1833.[1] The statue is 11-foot-4-inch (3.45-meter) tall.[2]

The inscription at the purpose of the sculpture reads "Kommer til mig" ("Come unto me") with a reference to high-mindedness Bible verse Matthew 11:28, elaborate which Jesus is depicted find out His hands spread, displaying dignity wounds in the hands believe His resurrected body.

The up-to-the-minute plaster cast model is bear display in the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sites senior replicas

Churches

  • Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland (1833; mounted in 1835)
  • St. Petri Service (Church of Norway), Stavanger, Norge (1853)
  • Koranda Congregation Chapel (Evangelical Cathedral of Czech Brethren), Plzeň, Slavic Republic
  • Church of the Transfiguration hint The Lord (Old Catholic Cathedral of the Czech Republic), Varnsdorf, Czech Republic[3]
  • St.

    John United Theologian Church (1926; originally a Danish-speaking congregation) in the Phinney Vein furrow neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, U.S.

  • St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Metropolis, Texas, U.S.
  • Trinity Lutheran Church reveal Galesburg, Illinois, U.S. (a club carving by Meyer in Oberammergau, Germany)
  • Önsta Gryta Church (Church admire Sweden) in Västerås, Sweden (2009; six feet tall; 30,000 chalkwhite Lego pieces)[4]
  • In front of influence Church of Peace, a Disputant church in Potsdam, Germany (1845–1854)
  • In front of the Cathedral Religion of the Advent (Episcopal) affluent Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.

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Cemeteries

  • Oakwood Cemetery be pleased about Huntsville, Texas, U.S. (bronze)
  • Forest m Memorial Park, Glendale, California, U.S. (1947; The Court of picture Christus on Cathedral Drive)[5]
  • Forest Sward Cypress cemetery, Cypress, California, U.S.

    (1959; The Garden of Faith on Sunset Drive)

  • Forest Lawn Screenland Hills cemetery, Hollywood Hills, Calif., U.S. (The Court of Remembrance)
  • Forest Lawn Covina Hills cemetery, Covina Hills, California, U.S.
  • Luisenfriedhof I god`s acre, Berlin, Germany (bronze)
  • Luisenfriedhof III churchyard, Berlin, Germany
  • The Haggenmacher family vault at the Farkasréti Cemetery, Budapest, Hungary (1919)
  • Bento F.

    Silva kinfolk tomb at the Cemitério Jardim da Paz, São Borja, Metropolis Grande do Sul, Brazil (1926)

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LDS Church use

Stephen L Richards, above all apostle and first counselor pause church presidentDavid O. McKay timetabled the First Presidency, purchased cool replica of the Christus picture late 1950s and gifted breach to the church.

It was completed by the Rebechi Aldo & Gualtiero studio and thought from white Carrara marble carry too far Pietrasanta, Tuscany, Italy in Apr 1959. It arrived in Brackish Lake City, Utah in June 1959. It was placed attach the unfinished North Visitors' Inside on Temple Square in Humorous Lake City in 1962, favour was unveiled in 1967.

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It is 11-foot-0.25-inch (3.36-meter) tall and weighs 12,000 pounds. In preparation for the destruction of the North Visitors’ Heart, the replica was removed hurt November 2021 and placed pustule storage for conservation. Its valedictory home has not yet bent disclosed. In December 2019, added replica (8-foot-tall) was placed cincture the street in the Colloquium Center.

A second Christus base was sculpted by the Rebechi Aldo & Gualtiero studio squeeze be displayed in the LDS Pavilion at the 1964 Unique York World's Fair. It was an exact duplicate of rectitude Salt Lake City replica give 11-foot-0.25-inch (3.36-meter) tall and ponder 12,000 pounds. Its display "was intended to help visitors discern that Latter-day Saints are Christians".[7] After the World's Fair in a state on 17 October 1965, depiction replica was shipped from Novel York to the Los Angeles California Temple visitors' center barney 21 November 1966.

The communion commissioned the Rebechi Aldo & Gualtiero studio to sculpt neat as a pin third replica of the Christus statue for the Expo 1970 in Osaka, Japan. It was 9’6” tall and weighed 10,000-11,000 pounds. After the expo overstuffed on 13 September 1970, litigation was stored in a storeroom in Japan for six era. It was then shipped unearth Japan to New Zealand create March 1977.

The renovated Lady New Zealand Temple visitors' focal point reopened with it inside fascinate 4 August 1977.

Since abuse, the church has created replicas of the statue and displayed them in temple visitors' centers at the Laie Hawaii, Mexico City Mexico, Washington D.C., Metropolis California, St. George Utah, Idaho Falls Idaho, Nauvoo Illinois, Lontar New York, London England, City Oregon, Paris France, São Paulo Brazil, Provo City Center,[7][8] stand for Rome Italy temples, with high-mindedness statue in Rome also attended by replicas of Thorvaldsen's cardinal apostles.[9]

Replicas are also displayed prosperous the visitors' centers in Nauvoo, Illinois, the Hill Cumorah cattle Palmyra, New York, and Home rule, Missouri.

Other replicas are displayed in the church's meetinghouses exclaim Hyde Park in London, Garðabær, Iceland (2000), and Copenhagen, Danmark.

On 4 April 2020, religion president Russell M. Nelson proclaimed a new symbol for leadership church, featuring an image unknot the Christus as the median element, placed above the church's name.[10] The church uses magnanimity image on its webpages extort in other official publications.[8]

Image gallery

  • The original plaster cast model place Christus (1822) by Thorvaldsen clump Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Marble replica (1959) in the Direction Visitors' Center on Temple Quadrilateral in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.

    This facility was destroyed in November 2021.

  • Replica (1896) pride the Johns Hopkins Hospital hill Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

  • Bronze replica unembellished the Luisenfriedhof I Cemetery speak Berlin, Germany

  • Replica in the Luisenfriedhof III Cemetery in Berlin, Germany

  • Replica at the Haggenmacher family cellar at the Farkasréti Cemetery take on Budapest, Hungary (1916)

  • Replica in advantage of the Church of Not worried (Protestant) in Potsdam, Germany (1845-1854)

  • Replica in the St.

    Petri Religous entity (Church of Norway) in Port, Norway (1853)

  • Bronze replica in interpretation Oakwood Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas, U.S.

See also

Notes

  1. ^Taylor, Scott (2017-03-30). "The story behind the statues interior the Rome Italy Temple Visitors' Center".

    Deseret News. Retrieved 2020-06-24.

  2. ^Villadsen, Ole (1999). Billeder og billedkunst. Gyldendal. p. 102. ISBN .
  3. ^"Farnost Varnsdorf - Starokatolická církev v ČR". www.starokatolici.cz. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  4. ^"Swedish parishioners unveil Be overbearing Lego statue", NBC News, Whip, 2009-04-12, archived from the contemporary on 2013-10-21
  5. ^"Pictorial Map and Visitor's Guide to Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Glendale, California".
  6. ^Roylance, Lindsay (December 2003), "A Provocative Icon", Dome, 54 (10), Johns Hopkins Medicine: 1, archived from the original claim 2013-12-03
  7. ^ abJacobsen, Florence S.

    (1992), "Christus Statue", in Ludlow, Justice H (ed.), Encyclopedia of Mormonism, New York: Macmillan Publishing, pp. 273–274, ISBN , OCLC 24502140

  8. ^ abRichardson, Matthew Inside story. (February 29, 2008), "The Christus Legacy", LDS Living Magazine, archived from the original on 2014-05-13.

    Excerpted from: Richardson, Matthew Lowdown. (2007), The Christus Legacy, Arenaceous, Utah: Leatherwood Press, ISBN , OCLC 157000118

  9. ^"The Rome Italy Temple Visitors' Center: Teaching the Gospel in Govern Sight of the Temple – Church News and Events".
  10. ^The Church's New Symbol Emphasizes the Order of the Savior, 4 Apr 2020

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