Because some rich heathen catholic sprung for it
Local engineer Heitor da Silva Costa designed the statue; it was sculpted by French sculptor Paul Landowski
Perhaps the posture of the statue was well thought of by the artist before it was made. Details can be put in art to convey ideas.
Christ the Redeemer was inaugurated on October 12, 1931, but his story started much earlier. In the mid 19th century the Catholic Church has wanted to do a large religious monument in Rio The centenary celebrations of Independence gave the final impetus. But in 1922, was only possible to lay the foundation stone of the statue. Even with access to a highway and an electrified railway, building a giant sculpture of a mountain peak located 710 meters above sea level was extremely difficult, taking five years to complete. Construction began in 1926, three years after being chosen a design engineer Heitor da Silva Costa. The artist Carlos Oswald made the final design of the statue, which was made by the French sculptor Paul Landowski of Polish origin. Landowski's heirs claimed copyright because the sculpture, but had never recognized it. The rights to the image of Christ belong to the Archbishop of Rio Mitra The sculpture is listed by the historic site since 1937. Made of soapstone and art deco style, the Christ is 38 meters tall, eight in the pedestal and 3.75 m in the head. The distance between the tips of both hands is 30 meters. Each hand measures 3.2 meters and weighs eight tons. The total weight of the monument is 1,145 tons. In the last reform in 2003, was put escalators to reach the statue
Please move the statue out of the hallway. That's a cool statue!
they worked to put white southerners back into power
I do not believe there is such a statue, but you can put messages into the cracks of the Western Wall.
I recall the story of a statue in Europe, damaged in the Second World War. Only partly repaired. When the townspeople asked "Where are His hands, the restorers replied "We are." Pegashus wrote:Several years ago I read the story and did some research on it. I'd heard a couple of apocryphal versions: one about a church in England bombed during World War II, the other about the Mainzer Dom (cathedral) in Germany. But then research and a phone call verified that the story originated at Christ the King Catholic Church in San Diego, California. At that time, the story was told on their website as well, but that site has since been closed. The statue did exist outside the church, but the hands were broken off by vandals around 1980, not by bombing. Instead of repairing the hands, the church decided to put up a plaque at the base that states, "I have no hands but yours." This is a reference to a poem by St. Teresa of Avila that begins: "Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours." The statue is still there, without hands. You can find still find photographs of the statue on the Web.
you can put a statue of liberty statue to represent a leader
No, he is the inverse of christ, as in he put one over christ. (Christ)^-1 = 1/Christ
The statue was finished in 1911. The rotunda, where the statue now sits, was dedicated in 1938.
You put on the statue and put Furdi on it!
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