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The face that Neave constructed suggested that Jesus would have had a broad face and large nose, and differed significantly from the traditional depictions of Jesus in renaissance art. [82] Additional information about Jesus' skin color and hair was provided by Mark Goodacre , a New Testament scholar and professor at Duke University.
Conrail 6114, a GE Dash 8-40CW, leads a train westbound out of Altoona, Pennsylvania. A Conrail train led by EMD GP40 3209 at Duncannon, Pennsylvania. Since Conrail was divided between Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation in 1999, all remaining locomotives have been successively repainted, and many remain in service. CR units had ...
C. The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew; The Calling of Saint Matthew; Cardinal Albert of Brandenburg before Christ on the Cross; Christ Among the Doctors (Dürer)
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 Veil of Veronica (Latin: Sudarium, 'sweat-cloth'), often called simply "The Veronica" and known in Italian as the Volto Santo or Holy Face (but not to be confused with the carved crucifix the Volto Santo of Lucca), is a Christian relic of a piece of cloth which, according to tradition, bears the image of Jesus' face. Various existing images ...
The painting depicts a scene from the canonical gospels concerning the Passion of Jesus, specifically Jesus's questioning by the Jewish religious authorities.. The gospels describe how, after his initial capture, Jesus was brought before Caiaphas – a high priest in the Jewish Sanhedrin. [4]
Detail of the painting. The work depicts Jesus carrying the cross above a dark background, primarily with black and red tones, [13] surrounded by numerous heads. This painting focuses solely on the face and hands as a source of emotional expression, bodies being faded into the dark background. [14]
When Saint Catherine's Monastery was founded by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, late in his reign, between 548 and 565, [4] it enjoyed imperial patronage and donations from Justinian and his court, with the Christ Pantocrator icon having been one of the many possible imperial gifts. [5]