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The Coventry International Prize for Peace and Reconciliation is modelled on the statue. In 1995 (to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II) bronze casts of this sculpture (as Reconciliation) were placed in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral and in the Hiroshima Peace Park in Japan.
In 1994 the cathedral received a copy of the statue Reconciliation, by Josefina de Vasconcellos. Originally created in 1977 and entitled Reunion, it had been presented to the University of Bradford's Peace Studies department. After repairs and renaming, a bronze cast of the statue was presented to the cathedral in 1995, to mark the 50th ...
Coventry Cathedral [1] More images: Reconciliation: Coventry Cathedral ruins: 1995 () Josefina de Vasconcellos: Statues: Bronze: Coventry Cathedral [2] More images: Ecce Homo: South wall of Coventry Cathedral ruins
Coventry Cathedral ruins with rainbow. The International Centre for Reconciliation (or ICR) was based at Coventry Cathedral, UK, and was established in 1940 after the destruction of the cathedral in the Second World War. [1] Rather than seek revenge for the devastation caused, the centre's founders vowed to promote reconciliation in areas of ...
Bronze cast of Reconciliation in Coventry Cathedral During the Second World War de Vasconcellos began working on a number of large sculptures including The Last Chimera , which is now in the grounds of the Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh and The Hand , a memorial in green slate to a friend killed in the war which now serves as a war memorial for St ...
A Coventry Cross of Nails (in German, Nagelkreuz von Coventry) is a Christian cross made from iron nails, employed as a symbol of peace and reconciliation. The original version was made from three large medieval nails salvaged from the Coventry Cathedral after the building was severely damaged by German bombs on 14 November 1940, during the ...
The chapel also has a replica of Coventry Cathedral’s Statue of Reconciliation, a gift of the Cathedral found in Hiroshima and Belfast too – also places emerging from the destructiveness of war. After helping with the construction, Open Houses has continued its involvement with the chapel.
English: The sculpture Reconciliation by Vasconcellos showing two former enemies embracing each other. It was erected in 1995 in the north aisle of the ruins of St Michael's Cathedral, Coventry. (Destroyed during fire bombs during the Coventry Blitz on 14 November 1940). The text on the pedestal is in English and in Japanese. The English text ...