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The image of the Divine Mercy is a depiction of Jesus Christ that is based on the Divine Mercy devotion initiated by Faustina Kowalska. According to Kowalska's diary, Jesus told her "I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. I also promise victory over enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour of death.
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]
Representation of Jesus Christ in a painting by German painter Heinrich Hofmann from the 1880s. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the life and influence of Jesus. Jesus is the central figure of Christianity, whom the teachings of most Christian denominations hold to be the Son of God and one in being with ...
Invariably these are images of Jesus or the Virgin Mary, usually the Virgin and Child. In the Eastern church, the most notable examples are the Mandylion, [1] also known as the Image of Edessa, the Hodegetria. In the West the most notable examples are the Shroud of Turin, Veil of Veronica, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and the Manoppello Image. The ...
Once the bearded, long-haired Jesus became the conventional representation of Jesus, his facial features slowly began to be standardised, although this process took until at least the 6th century in the Eastern Church, and much longer in the West, where clean-shaven Jesuses are common until the 12th century, despite the influence of Byzantine art.
The work is unusual for its portrayal of the Crucifixion of Jesus from the perspective of Jesus on the cross, rather than featuring Christ at the center of the work. [2] The scene shows witnesses, including Jesus' followers ( the women and the disciple whom Jesus loved ), participants, and bystanders; of Jesus' own body only the feet can be ...
The main light source is not evident in the painting but comes from the upper left; the lesser light source is the lantern held by the man at the right (believed to be a self-portrait of Caravaggio; also, presumably, representing St Peter, who would first betray Jesus by denying him, and then go on to bring the light of Christ to the world). At ...
Child Jesus Salvator Mundi (17th century), Portugal. Salvator Mundi, Latin for Saviour of the World, is a subject in iconography depicting Christ with his right hand raised in blessing and his left hand holding an orb (frequently surmounted by a cross), known as a globus cruciger.