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[edit] replica

Statue of Christ the Redeemer - Free Paper Model not available at RecorteCole from Brazil

[edit] Pages titles

I know Corcovado is the mount, while the Redeemer(the name) is the statue. When I first saw the article, it was called "Corcovado", while it only talked about the statue. All I did was to move that info to a page with a proper title (this one) and turn the Corcovado page into a redirect, until someone could fill it up with actual info on the mountain, which is what you did. – Kaonashi 05:26, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Is this an article about the statue or a tourist brochure about Brazil??? For example: a symbol of the city and of the warmth of the Brazilian people, who receive visitors with open arms.. It could definitily be more factual... I'm rephrasing the sentence... --Konstantin 10:32, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Origins

Is that history correct? I was under the impression that the statue, much like the Statue of Liberty, in New York, was a gift from France. Brazil was told in [way] advance that it was going to get it though, so what happened there was a process to select a venue for it to be placed and, once that was chosen, construction of the surrounding monument (the pedestal and the entire structure on top of Corcovado mountain — I do not believe, however, that Brazil or Brazilians had any part in the construction of the actual statue, and thus in selecting its appearance). I can do further research on this, to be certain. But what was the source for the information that is in the article now? Regards, Redux 10:51, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

The statue was not a gift - it was paid for with donations collected by the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro, under the supervision of a Brazilian engineer, Heitor da Silva Costa. The final design was done by a Franco-Polish architect, Paul Landowsky, and parts of the statue were built in France as they already had experience in building large statues. antiuser 17:33, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

This particular issue has just been addressed in a report of ‘Mais Você’ (TV show broadcast by Globo network) about the exhibition being currently held in Rio about the statue (‘Exposição Christo Redemptor’), and they mentioned that although the story about it having been a gift from the French, that’s a historical lie/legend with no concrete basis other than parts of the statue having been built in France (as mentioned by antiuser above). Psi-Lord 10:46, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] copyvio

Note that text prior to revision as of 05:19, 28 February 2006 was not copyvio. I would suggest reverting to this revision. akaDruid 14:35, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

The article was never properly submitted as a copyvio, as it was never added to the WP:COPYVIO page. That page clearly states that articles should only be so listed where all revisions have copyright problems, and this article has over a years worth of non-copyvio revisions, so that is probably a good thing. As the article was never properly listed, the copyvio template's injunctions not to further edit the article are null and void. I'm therefore following the correct procedure for this case, again as described in WP:COPYVIO, and reverting the article to the most recent revision not containing copyvio. -- Chris j wood 18:47, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The world's three Christ statues

Hello all,

Someone might want to point out in this article that there are three (I think it's three) of these statues in various places throughout the world - one in Rio, one in Havana, Cuba, one in Europe I believe. All of the statues intentionally face one another. I thought I had a photograph of the statue in the Havana suburb of Regla but alas, it seems to be lost.

Cheers,

Goatboy95 19:42, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, the one in Europe is the Cristo-Rei, in Lisbon, Portugal.

Daniel

I agree that this is good information to include in this article, although you might want to mention that the Rio version is by far the largest. Is there a link to the Cuban version? - Robert Rapplean 21:23, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photo Caption - Needs to be changed

The phonto caption on this page seems to be vandalized it says "Christ the **shole licker". I'm not a regular editor so I want to leave this up to the people that know what they are doing to change it.

[edit] Height - Wrong

I'm not typically a Wikipedia editor, so i didn't fix it, but i do know 32 meters does not equal 125 feet.

Still wrong. Come on, guys, decide whether you're shooting for 30 metres or 38 metres and give the imperial conversion for whichever one you settle for - 30/105 or 38/125 (more or less)! Captain Pedant 08:28, 11 July 2007 (UTC) (comment before wasn't by me)

[edit] Size Comparassion - Wrong

Furthermore, the statue measures 30 meters from heel to head, 3 meters short than Statue of Liberty. The statue has a total of 38 meters, 8 meters being the height of the pedestal. Comparing the size of the STATUES only, head to heel, Liberty Statue is 3 meters taller, unlike the graphic of the size comparassion, which shows the Liberty Statue without the pedestal, and the Christ Statue without the pedestal but with total height that should include the pedestal.

[edit] Copyvio again

I removed text from World Architecture Images added by 203.27.235.5.
/ Mats Halldin (talk) 06:08, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NEW WONDER

Elected onde of the new seven wonders of the world, the Christ Redeemer finished up as the one of the new wonders, leaving behind others like the Statue of Lyberty and Eiffel Tower.

It is questionable whether mention of election as one of the "New Seven Wonders" should appear prominently in the description. Does mention of this add to the importance of the statue, or is it inflating the importance of this "New Seven Wonders" list?

Also, is it worth mentioning twice?Ntveem 00:31, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

The only notability of this designation is the number of voters that participated.
Jim Dunning | talk 12:59, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
Not worth mentioning twice. Sancho 16:34, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comparison of size

Interesting that the "my *cough* is bigger than yours" brigade was happy to include the base of the Statue of Liberty but not the base for the statue of Christ the Redeemer. Take away the bases, and they're much closer in size (if you exclude the upraised arm of Liberty and the outstretched arms of Christ). I if I was any good at image management, I'd do a little cutting and pasting myself.

Oh, I did that my self... I didn't mean to have it being a "mine's bigger than yours", it was just something that I thought would make people who are familiar with the statue of liberty more easily appreciate the size of the Christ the Redeemer. Bigger isn't better. I did include the split between the base and the statue so that it was clear. Should I take away the base completely? Sancho 15:19, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
I was also wondering what else I could put in the comparison... is there a better tall structure that people are familiar with? Sancho 15:19, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
I don't see a point on comparing sizes at all. Both are pretty impressive statues but there are much bigger statues in the world like those of Buddha in India and the Mamayev Kurgan in Russia. And since is an article about Christ the Redeemer, what's the point?201.81.34.48 15:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
I didn't know how tall 36 m was. The comparison is to give people a sense of how tall 36 m is. I changed the comparison image now also. (PS. please sign your comments on talk pages with four tildes, like: ~~~~. The software will turn them into a signature when you save the page.) Sancho 15:47, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
There is no such a comparison in the Statue of Liberty article. As in any other statue article as far as i checked. I still fail to see the point.201.81.34.48 15:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
Not everyone has as such an intuitive grasp of height as you do... please consider that a lot of people can't read a height on paper and picture how tall that actually is. Just because it hasn't been done before, doesn't mean that it's not helpful. Sancho 16:09, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Felix Baumgartner ?

Does anyone want to add how Felix jumped from the statue? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.140.121.182 (talk) 21:53, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What idiot keeps on making it 700,000,000,000 tons

O my gosh, some person keeps on adding stuff like blood suckung creeps —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.112.136.167 (talk) 04:00, 16 January 2008 (UTC)