<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The monuments of Christ erected from 1920s onwards in many places throughout the world are a specific group of dominants associated with sacrum. Their effect on the perception of the landscape is very strong because of the artistic form and, above all, the symbolic dimension they have. The aim of the work is to demonstrate that land development projects around sacred landscape dominants in the form of statues of Christ should be subject to careful consideration, both in terms of functionality and composition. The adjustment of the environment to the scale and rank of the object - so as to emphasise its special role in the landscape, but also the symbolism associated with the sphere of sacrum - plays a crucial role in this case. Comparative analyses were made for ten highest statues of Christ in the world. The research was also supplemented with a presentation of the concept of land development around the statue of Christ in Świebodzin.</p></abstract>

The monuments of Christ erected from 1920s onwards in many places throughout the world are a specific group of dominants associated with sacrum. Their effect on the perception of the landscape is very strong because of the artistic form and, above all, the symbolic dimension they have. The aim of the work is to demonstrate that land development projects around sacred landscape dominants in the form of statues of Christ should be subject to careful consideration, both in terms of functionality and composition. The adjustment of the environment to the scale and rank of the object - so as to emphasise its special role in the landscape, but also the symbolism associated with the sphere of sacrum - plays a crucial role in this case. Comparative analyses were made for ten highest statues of Christ in the world. The research was also supplemented with a presentation of the concept of land development around the statue of Christ in Świebodzin.

Heavens Above – A Statue of Christ in the Landscape

Department of Landscape Design, Faculty of Environmental Management and Agriculture

West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin

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The monuments of Christ erected from 1920s onwards in many places throughout the world are a specific group of dominants associated with sacrum. Their effect...

Heavens Above – A Statue of Christ in the Landscape

Published Online: May 21, 2020

Page range: 55 - 68

Received: Mar 28, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.18.054.8366

Keywords
landscape dominants, sacrum in the landscape, statue of Christ

© 2020 Magdalena Rzeszotarska-Pałka, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Heavens Above – A Statue of Christ in the Landscape

Published Online: May 21, 2020

Page range: 55 - 68

Received: Mar 28, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.18.054.8366

Keywordslandscape dominants, sacrum in the landscape, statue of Christ

© 2020 Magdalena Rzeszotarska-Pałka, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Keywords
landscape dominants, sacrum in the landscape, statue of Christ