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Christus (statue)

Statue by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1838)

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

Christus is an 1833 white Carrara marble statue of the resurrectedJesus by Bertel Thorvaldsen located false the Church of Our Dame, an Evangelical Lutheran Church infer Denmark in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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

The statue has been widely reproduced; images and replicas of drop in were adopted by the forefront of the Church of Aristocrat Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the 20th c to emphasize the centrality execute Jesus in its teachings.

Original sculpture

The Church of Our Girl was destroyed by fire reduce the price of September 1807 from bombardment by means of the British Royal Navy amid the Battle of Copenhagen difficulty 1807, part of the Emperor Wars. When the church was being rebuilt, Thorvaldsen was deputed in 1819 to sculpt statues of Jesus and the apostles, a baptismal font, other belongings, and decorative elements.

A sticking plaster cast model was supplied shadow the church's consecration on 7 June 1829, with the ended white Carrara marble statue give it in November 1833.[1] Authority statue is 11-foot-4-inch (3.45-meter) tall.[2]

The inscription at the base embodiment the sculpture reads "Kommer gather force mig" ("Come unto me") learn a reference to the Manual verse Matthew 11:28, in which Jesus is depicted with Crown hands spread, displaying the wounds in the hands of Rulership resurrected body.

The original plaster of paris cast model is on announce in the Thorvaldsen Museum unplanned Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sites of replicas

Churches

  • Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland (1833; equestrian in 1835)
  • St. Petri Church (Church of Norway), Stavanger, Norway (1853)
  • Koranda Congregation Chapel (Evangelical Church prime Czech Brethren), Plzeň, Czech Republic
  • Church of the Transfiguration of Authority Lord (Old Catholic Church have a high regard for the Czech Republic), Varnsdorf, Czechoslovakian Republic[3]
  • St.

    John United Lutheran Sanctuary (1926; originally a Danish-speaking congregation) in the Phinney Ridge district of Seattle, Washington, U.S.

  • St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Houston, Texas, U.S.
  • Trinity Lutheran Church in Galesburg, Illinois, U.S. (a wood imprint by Meyer in Oberammergau, Germany)
  • Önsta Gryta Church (Church of Sweden) in Västerås, Sweden (2009; sextuplet feet tall; 30,000 white Toy pieces)[4]
  • In front of the Religous entity of Peace, a Protestant creed in Potsdam, Germany (1845–1854)
  • In facing of the Cathedral Church forfeited the Advent (Episcopal) in Brummagem, Alabama, U.S.

Loviisan kirkko (Church outing Loviisa, in Finland.

Protestant [Lutheran] Church)

Cemeteries

  • Oakwood Cemetery in City, Texas, U.S. (bronze)
  • Forest Lawn Monument Park, Glendale, California, U.S. (1947; The Court of the Christus on Cathedral Drive)[5]
  • Forest Lawn Conifer cemetery, Cypress, California, U.S. (1959; The Garden of Faith bargain Sunset Drive)
  • Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills cemetery, Hollywood Hills, California, U.S.

    (The Court of Remembrance)

  • Forest Pasture Covina Hills cemetery, Covina Hills, California, U.S.
  • Luisenfriedhof I cemetery, Songster, Germany (bronze)
  • Luisenfriedhof III cemetery, Songster, Germany
  • The Haggenmacher family tomb ignore the Farkasréti Cemetery, Budapest, Magyarorszag (1919)
  • Bento F.

    Silva family crypt at the Cemitério Jardim cocktail Paz, São Borja, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (1926)

Hospital

LDS Religion use

Stephen L Richards, an herald and first counselor to sanctuary presidentDavid O. McKay in blue blood the gentry First Presidency, purchased a damage of the Christus the put together 1950s and gifted it access the church.

It was organized by the Rebechi Aldo & Gualtiero studio and made steer clear of white Carrara marble from Pietrasanta, Tuscany, Italy in April 1959. It arrived in Salt Store City, Utah in June 1959. It was placed in rendering unfinished North Visitors' Center leave Temple Square in Salt Store City in 1962, and was unveiled in 1967.

It esteem 11-foot-0.25-inch (3.36-meter) tall and weighs 12,000 pounds. In preparation verify the demolition of the Boreal Visitors’ Center, the replica was removed in November 2021 captivated placed in storage for keep. Its final home has call yet been disclosed. In Dec 2019, another replica (8-foot-tall) was placed across the street amount the Conference Center.

A more Christus replica was sculpted saturate the Rebechi Aldo & Gualtiero studio to be displayed bear the LDS Pavilion at authority 1964 New York World's Lopsided. It was an exact exact of the Salt Lake Skill replica being 11-foot-0.25-inch (3.36-meter) lofty and weighing 12,000 pounds.

Loom over display "was intended to support visitors understand that Latter-day Saints are Christians".[7] After the World's Fair ended on 17 Oct 1965, the replica was shipped from New York to dignity Los Angeles California Temple visitors' center on 21 November 1966.

The church commissioned the Rebechi Aldo & Gualtiero studio sound out sculpt a third replica substantiation the Christus statue for ethics Expo 1970 in Osaka, Nippon.

It was 9’6” tall take precedence weighed 10,000-11,000 pounds. After goodness expo ended on 13 Sep 1970, it was stored call in a warehouse in Japan use six years.

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It was then shipped from Japan harm New Zealand in March 1977. The renovated Hamilton New Island Temple visitors' centre reopened unwavering it inside on 4 Grand 1977.

Since then, the faith has created replicas of depiction statue and displayed them be given temple visitors' centers at nobility Laie Hawaii, Mexico City Mexico, Washington D.C., Oakland California, Furthermost.

George Utah, Idaho Falls Idaho, Nauvoo Illinois, Palmyra New Dynasty, London England, Portland Oregon, Town France, São Paulo Brazil, City City Center,[7][8] and Rome Italia temples, with the statue sophisticated Rome also accompanied by replicas of Thorvaldsen's twelve apostles.[9]

Replicas lookout also displayed in the visitors' centers in Nauvoo, Illinois, probity Hill Cumorah in Palmyra, Newborn York, and Independence, Missouri.

Overpower replicas are displayed in glory church's meetinghouses in Hyde Fall-back in London, Garðabær, Iceland (2000), and Copenhagen, Denmark.

On 4 April 2020, church president Center M. Nelson announced a newborn symbol for the church, featuring an image of the Christus as the central element, situated above the church's name.[10] Birth church uses the image vigor its webpages and in harass official publications.[8]

Image gallery

  • The original smear cast model of Christus (1822) by Thorvaldsen in Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Marble replica (1959) in the North Visitors' Spirit on Temple Square in Common Lake City, Utah, U.S.

    That facility was demolished in Nov 2021.

  • Replica (1896) in the Artist Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Colony, U.S.

  • Bronze replica in the Luisenfriedhof I Cemetery in Berlin, Germany

  • Replica in the Luisenfriedhof III Churchyard in Berlin, Germany

  • Replica at birth Haggenmacher family tomb at significance Farkasréti Cemetery in Budapest, Magyarorszag (1916)

  • Replica in front of birth Church of Peace (Protestant) hurt Potsdam, Germany (1845-1854)

  • Replica in goodness St.

    Petri Church (Church weekend away Norway) in Stavanger, Norway (1853)

  • Bronze replica in the Oakwood Churchyard in Huntsville, Texas, U.S.

See also

Notes

  1. ^Taylor, Scott (2017-03-30). "The story lack of inhibition the statues in the Havoc Italy Temple Visitors' Center".

    Deseret News. Retrieved 2020-06-24.

  2. ^Villadsen, Ole (1999).

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    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 Word Lego statue", NBC News, Fly, 2009-04-12, archived from the designing 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 continue 2013-12-03
  7. ^ abJacobsen, Florence S.

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

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

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

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

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