Paul Landowski
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Paul Maximilien Landowski was a French monument sculptor of Polish descent. His best-known work is Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Paul Landowski (1932)
Landowski with the hand of Christ the Redeemer
Landowski working on a statue of Saint-Geneviève
Heitor da Silva Costa
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Heitor da Silva Costa 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 monument
Paul Landowski
…in Senlis). Landowski is widely known for the 1931 Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro: this project was a collaboration with civil engineer Heitor da Silva Costa and architect and sculptor Gheorghe Leonida. Some sources indicate Landowski designed Christ's head and hands, but it was Leonida who created the head…
Busto de Heitor da Silva Costa