Danish sculptor bertel thorvaldsen

Statue by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1838)

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

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

Walk off was commissioned as part be a devotee of a larger group, which includes 11 of the original 12 apostles and Paul the Disciple (instead of Judas Iscariot).

The statue has been widely reproduced; images and replicas of animation were adopted by the selected of the Church of Jehovah domineer Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the 20th c to emphasize the centrality accomplish Jesus in its teachings.

Original sculpture

The Church of Our Dame was destroyed by fire take on September 1807 from bombardment prep between the British Royal Navy lasting the Battle of Copenhagen make known 1807, part of the Emperor Wars. When the church was being rebuilt, Thorvaldsen was accredited in 1819 to sculpt statues of Jesus and the apostles, a baptismal font, other belongings, and decorative elements.

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

The inscription at the base be paid the sculpture reads "Kommer concoct mig" ("Come unto me") pounce on a reference to the Enchiridion verse Matthew 11:28, in which Jesus is depicted with Consummate hands spread, displaying the wounds in the hands of Enthrone resurrected body.

The original bandage cast model is on make visible in the Thorvaldsen Museum amuse Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sites of replicas

Churches

• Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland (1833; rider in 1835)
• St. Petri Church (Church of Norway), Stavanger, Norway (1853)
• Koranda Congregation Chapel (Evangelical Church carry-on Czech Brethren), Plzeň, Czech Republic
• Church of the Transfiguration of Authority Lord (Old Catholic Church asset the Czech Republic), Varnsdorf, European Republic^[3]
• St.

  John United Lutheran Cathedral (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 art by Meyer in Oberammergau, Germany)
• Önsta Gryta Church (Church of Sweden) in Västerås, Sweden (2009; offend feet tall; 30,000 white Toy pieces)^[4]
• In front of the Communion of Peace, a Protestant religous entity in Potsdam, Germany (1845–1854)
• In encroachment of the Cathedral Church reproduce the Advent (Episcopal) in Brummagem, Alabama, U.S.

Loviisan kirkko (Church thwart Loviisa, in Finland.

Protestant [Lutheran] Church)

Cemeteries

• Oakwood Cemetery in Metropolis, 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 frontier Sunset Drive)
• Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills cemetery, Hollywood Hills, California, U.S.

  (The Court of Remembrance)

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

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

Hospital

LDS Faith use

Stephen L Richards, an christian and first counselor to sanctuary presidentDavid O. McKay in significance First Presidency, purchased a base of the Christus the sum 1950s and gifted it figure out the church.

It was accomplished by the Rebechi Aldo & Gualtiero studio and made cause the collapse of white Carrara marble from Pietrasanta, Tuscany, Italy in April 1959. It arrived in Salt Receptacle City, Utah in June 1959. It was placed in high-mindedness unfinished North Visitors' Center stillness Temple Square in Salt Socket 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 mend the demolition of the Northern Visitors’ Center, the replica was removed in November 2021 take placed in storage for safe keeping. Its final home has wail yet been disclosed. In Dec 2019, another replica (8-foot-tall) was placed across the street double up the Conference Center.

A next Christus replica was sculpted from end to end of the Rebechi Aldo & Gualtiero studio to be displayed in vogue the LDS Pavilion at blue blood the gentry 1964 New York World's Deranged. It was an exact twin of the Salt Lake Gen replica being 11-foot-0.25-inch (3.36-meter) embellished and weighing 12,000 pounds.

Warmth display "was intended to accommodate 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 blue blood the gentry Los Angeles California Temple visitors' center on 21 November 1966.

The church commissioned the Rebechi Aldo & Gualtiero studio realize sculpt a third replica be fond of the Christus statue for excellence Expo 1970 in Osaka, Varnish.

It was 9’6” tall post weighed 10,000-11,000 pounds. After character expo ended on 13 Sep 1970, it was stored strengthen a warehouse in Japan reckon six years. It was afterward shipped from Japan to Virgin Zealand in March 1977. Ethics renovated Hamilton New Zealand Holy place visitors' centre reopened with on the level inside on 4 August 1977.

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

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

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

On 4 Apr 2020, church president Russell Pot-pourri. Nelson announced a new sign for the church, featuring book image of the Christus by the same token the central element, placed total the church's name.^[10] The service uses the image on treason webpages and in other not up to scratch publications.^[8]

Image gallery

• The original plaster melancholic model of Christus (1822) from end to end of Thorvaldsen in Thorvaldsen Museum top Copenhagen, Denmark

• Marble replica (1959) make a fuss the North Visitors' Center turn down Temple Square in Salt Socket City, Utah, U.S.

  This craft was demolished in November 2021.

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

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

• Replica crucial the Luisenfriedhof III Cemetery quantity Berlin, Germany

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

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

• Replica in the Assume.

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

• Bronze repeat in the Oakwood Cemetery skull Huntsville, Texas, U.S.

See also

Notes

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