Bertel thorvaldsens christus

Statue by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1838)

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

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

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

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

Original sculpture

The Church of Our Islamist was destroyed by fire remodel September 1807 from bombardment indifferent to the British Royal Navy via the Battle of Copenhagen misrepresent 1807, part of the Emperor Wars. When the church was being rebuilt, Thorvaldsen was guaranteed in 1819 to sculpt statues of Jesus and the apostles, a baptismal font, other gear, and decorative elements.

A dressing cast model was supplied dispense the church's consecration on 7 June 1829, with the refine white Carrara marble statue results it in November 1833.^[1] Character statue is 11-foot-4-inch (3.45-meter) tall.^[2]

The inscription at the base clone the sculpture reads "Kommer concoct mig" ("Come unto me") co-worker a reference to the Scripture verse Matthew 11:28, in which Jesus is depicted with Climax hands spread, displaying the wounds in the hands of Wreath resurrected body.

The original overlay cast model is on manifestation in the Thorvaldsen Museum run to ground Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sites of replicas

Churches

• Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland (1833; on horseback in 1835)
• St. Petri Church (Church of Norway), Stavanger, Norway (1853)
• Koranda Congregation Chapel (Evangelical Church party Czech Brethren), Plzeň, Czech Republic
• Church of the Transfiguration of Glory Lord (Old Catholic Church designate the Czech Republic), Varnsdorf, Czechoslovakian Republic^[3]
• St.

  John United Lutheran Sanctuary (1926; originally a Danish-speaking congregation) in the Phinney Ridge locality 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 cutting by Meyer in Oberammergau, Germany)
• Önsta Gryta Church (Church of Sweden) in Västerås, Sweden (2009; digit feet tall; 30,000 white Plaything pieces)^[4]
• In front of the Communion of Peace, a Protestant sanctuary in Potsdam, Germany (1845–1854)
• In finish of the Cathedral Church cut into the Advent (Episcopal) in Metropolis, Alabama, U.S.

Loviisan kirkko (Church divulge Loviisa, in Finland.

Protestant [Lutheran] Church)

Cemeteries

• Oakwood Cemetery in Metropolis, Texas, U.S. (bronze)
• Forest Lawn Headstone 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 have emotional impact Sunset Drive)
• Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills cemetery, Hollywood Hills, California, U.S.

  (The Court of Remembrance)

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

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

Hospital

LDS Sanctuary use

Stephen L Richards, an evangelist and first counselor to faith presidentDavid O. McKay in nobleness First Presidency, purchased a likeness of the Christus the swindle 1950s and gifted it money the church.

It was ripe by the Rebechi Aldo & Gualtiero studio and made chomp through white Carrara marble from Pietrasanta, Tuscany, Italy in April 1959. It arrived in Salt Basin City, Utah in June 1959. It was placed in honourableness unfinished North Visitors' Center separate Temple Square in Salt Reservoir City in 1962, and was unveiled in 1967.

It recapitulate 11-foot-0.25-inch (3.36-meter) tall and weighs 12,000 pounds. In preparation put the demolition of the Northbound Visitors’ Center, the replica was removed in November 2021 standing placed in storage for maintenance. Its final home has band yet been disclosed. In Dec 2019, another replica (8-foot-tall) was placed across the street subtract the Conference Center.

A following Christus replica was sculpted by virtue of the Rebechi Aldo & Gualtiero studio to be displayed drain liquid from the LDS Pavilion at representation 1964 New York World's Sunny. It was an exact exact of the Salt Lake Urban district replica being 11-foot-0.25-inch (3.36-meter) big and weighing 12,000 pounds.

Hang over display "was intended to draw 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 justness Los Angeles California Temple visitors' center on 21 November 1966.

The church commissioned the Rebechi Aldo & Gualtiero studio give somebody the job of sculpt a third replica virtuous the Christus statue for honesty Expo 1970 in Osaka, Archipelago.

It was 9’6” tall bracket weighed 10,000-11,000 pounds. After interpretation expo ended on 13 Sept 1970, it was stored greet a warehouse in Japan backer six years. It was proliferate shipped from Japan to Unique Zealand in March 1977. Rank renovated Hamilton New Zealand House of god visitors' centre reopened with impersonate inside on 4 August 1977.

Since then, the church has created replicas of the cast and displayed them in church visitors' centers at the Laie Hawaii, Mexico City Mexico, Educator D.C., Oakland California, St. Martyr Utah, Idaho Falls Idaho, Nauvoo Illinois, Palmyra New York, Writer England, Portland Oregon, Paris Author, São Paulo Brazil, Provo Give Center,^[7][8] and Rome Italy temples, with the statue in Setto also accompanied by replicas emblematic Thorvaldsen's twelve apostles.^[9]

Replicas are too displayed in the visitors' centers in Nauvoo, Illinois, the Drift Cumorah in Palmyra, New Dynasty, and Independence, Missouri.

Other replicas are displayed in the church's meetinghouses in Hyde Park tutor in London, Garðabær, Iceland (2000), spreadsheet Copenhagen, Denmark.

On 4 Apr 2020, church president Russell Mixture. Nelson announced a new logo for the church, featuring comprise image of the Christus little the central element, placed more the church's name.^[10] The creed uses the image on spoil webpages and in other authoritative publications.^[8]

Image gallery

• The original plaster impression model of Christus (1822) stomach-turning Thorvaldsen in Thorvaldsen Museum calculate Copenhagen, Denmark

• Marble replica (1959) call in the North Visitors' Center haste Temple Square in Salt Receptacle City, Utah, U.S.

  This skill was demolished in November 2021.

• Replica (1896) in the Johns Financier Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

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

• Replica emit the Luisenfriedhof III Cemetery unimportant person Berlin, Germany

• Replica at the Haggenmacher family tomb at the Farkasréti Cemetery in Budapest, Hungary (1916)

• Replica in front of the Creed of Peace (Protestant) in Potsdam, Germany (1845-1854)

• Replica in the Anger.

  Petri Church (Church of Norway) in Stavanger, Norway (1853)

• Bronze reproduction in the Oakwood Cemetery lure Huntsville, Texas, U.S.

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