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Construction was completed a little less than 10 years later, and it was dedicated on Oct. 12, 1931. Weighing 635 metric tons, it is the largest Art Deco statue in the world.
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The statue, which was inspired by the famed Christ the Redeemer statue on Corcovado Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, would have been designed by local sculptor Ed Hamilton and architect Jasper Ward. [16] The first phase of the development, coming in at a cost of $4 million, would have been a statue of 150 feet (46 m) tall and 150 feet (46 m) wide ...
Christ the Redeemer (Portuguese: Cristo Redentor, standard Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈkɾistu ʁedẽˈtoʁ]) is an Art Deco statue of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French-Polish sculptor Paul Landowski and built by Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with French engineer Albert Caquot.
The interior is striking with its use of curved forms, and a massive mural "Christ of the Working Man" by John William Orth. Following concerns of the building's integrity in an inspection in February, 2011, the community moved their services to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. [1] [2]
Via Dolorosa Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Biblical Art. Brenda Kay Winters is one member since 2016. She is the wife of Michael Kent Webb, who wrote the very first protocols for the Ethernet while at Xerox, and later was the sole inventor of the sleep mode on computers in Texas 1991.
Heitor da Silva Costa (25 July 1873 – 21 April 1947) was a Brazilian civil engineer, designer and constructor of the Christ the Redeemer monument in Rio de Janeiro.In 1924, he won a competition for the construction of the monumental Christ the Redeemer statue Monumento Cristo Redentor on Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro organized by the Catholic Church.