Christ the Redeemer (Cristo Redentor) is an Art Deco
statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French sculptor
Paul Landowski and built by the Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in
collaboration with the French engineer Albert Caquot. The face was created by
the Romanian artist Gheorghe Leonida. The statue is 30 metres (98 ft) tall, not
including its 8-metre (26 ft) pedestal, and its arms stretch 28 metres (92 ft)
wide.
The statue weighs 635 metric tons (625 long, 700 short
tons), and is located at the peak of the 700-metre (2,300 ft) Corcovado
mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city of Rio de
Janeiro. The statue of Christ the Redeemer is a symbol of Christianity across
the world and the statue has also become a cultural icon of both Rio de Janeiro
and Brazil. It is made of reinforced concrete and soapstone, and was
constructed between 1922 and 1931.
The statue was struck by lightning during a violent
thunderstorm on February 10, 2008, and suffered some damage to the fingers,
head and eyebrows. A restoration effort was put in place by the Rio de Janeiro
state government to replace some of the outer soapstone layers and repair the
lightning rods installed on the statue. It was damaged by lightning again, on
January 17, 2014, where a finger on the right hand was dislodged.
In 2010, a massive restoration of the statue was
undertaken. The statue was washed, the mortar and soapstone that cover the
statue were replaced, the internal structure of iron was restored and the
monument was made waterproof.
This postcard came from tash-Project 17 (6 October 2015)
Postcrossing.
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