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The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus by Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, [1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. [2]
The oldest known portrait of Jesus, found in Syria and dated to about 235, shows him as a beardless young man of authoritative and dignified bearing. He is depicted with close-cropped hair and wearing a tunic and pallium—the common male dress for much of Greco-Roman society, and similar to that found in the figure art in the Dura-Europos ...
Baroque Trinity, Hendrick van Balen, 1620, (Sint-Jacobskerk, Antwerp) Holy Trinity, fresco by Luca Rossetti da Orta, 1738–39 (St. Gaudenzio Church at Ivrea). The Trinity is most commonly seen in Christian art with the Holy Spirit represented by a dove, as specified in the gospel accounts of the baptism of Christ; he is nearly always shown with wings outspread.
Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder print, as it has become known, has been famous since his own day for the extraordinarily high price it fetched. A letter to Carolus van den Bosch, the Bishop of Bruges, in 1654, only a few years after it was completed, claimed that "in Holland [it] has been sold various times for 100 guilders and more", saying it was "very fine and lovely, but ought to cost 30 ...
Subjects showing the life of Jesus during his active life as a teacher, before the days of the Passion, were relatively few in medieval art, for a number of reasons. [1] From the Renaissance, and in Protestant art, the number of subjects increased considerably, but cycles in painting became rarer, though they remained common in prints and ...
Kowalska also wrote that Jesus stressed the importance of the image as part of the Divine Mercy devotion, and in Notebook 1, item 327, she attributed these words to Jesus: "I am offering people a vessel with which they are to keep coming for graces to the fountain of mercy. That vessel is this image with the signature; 'Jesus, I trust in You." [19]
The Klosterneuburg Altar, made in 1181 by Nicholas of Verdun, includes the scene with this meaning. [23] Another biblical theme linked to the winepress referenced by commentators was the allegory of the "Vineyard of God" or "True Vine", found in Isaiah 27:2–5, John 15:1 and Matthew 21:33–45, understood as a metaphor for the church. [24]
It depicts Jesus and Peter walking on water, heralding Christ's power that viewers would hope to gain through "ritual initiation." [ 10 ] The period of late antiquity (313–476 CE), after the Edict of Milan (313 CE), saw an increase in Paleochristian public art, often focused on apostolic authority, due to Constantine's decriminalisation of ...