Gutzon Borglum's Rabonni Up Closer

by Cora Wandel

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Gutzon Borglum's Rabonni Up Closer

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Cora Wandel

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The sculpture "Rabboni" was made by artist Gutzon Borglum in 1909. It marks the burial plot of the Ffoulke family in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. The sculpture is of Mary Magdalene as she sees Jesus Christ for the first time after his resurrection. "Rabboni" is the Hebrew form of the word "rabbi". Mary Madalene calls the resurrected Christ "Rabboni," per the following Bible passage in John 20:16: "Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master." (This is an "up closer" photograph of the Rabonni sculpture. To see the full length sculpture, a photograph of it precedes this one in this gallery.)

Borglum was a famous American sculptor, and his most well-known work is the monumental Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, which shows the heads of four Presidents of the United States carved into a mountainside. Those presidents are George Washington, Thomas, Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

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