Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
An 18th-century Ethiopian image of Jesus. Certain local traditions have maintained different depictions, sometimes reflecting local racial characteristics, as do the Catholic and Orthodox depictions. The Coptic Church of Egypt separated in the 5th century, and has a distinctive depiction of Jesus, consistent with Coptic art.
Nativity images became increasing popular in panel paintings in the 15th century, although on altarpieces the Holy Family often had to share the picture space with donor portraits. In Early Netherlandish painting the usual simple shed, little changed from Late Antiquity, developed into an elaborate ruined temple, initially Romanesque in style ...
The image of "The Good Shepherd", a beardless youth in pastoral scenes collecting sheep, was the most common of these images, and was probably not understood as a portrait of the historical Jesus. The depiction of Jesus already from the 3rd century included images very similar to what became the traditional image of Jesus, with a longish face ...
By: Josh King, Buzz60. It turns out the most accurate depiction of Jesus Christ may be on a bronze coin from the 1st century AD. The image on the coin was believed to be of Manu, the King of ...
Another 20th-century depiction of Jesus, namely the Divine Mercy image, is based on Faustina Kowalska's reported vision, which she described in her diary as a pattern that was then painted by artists. [78] The depiction is now widely used among Catholics, and it has more than a hundred million followers worldwide. [78] [79]
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]
Earlier this year a picture re-emerged that showed what Jesus might have looked like as a kid. Detectives took the Turin Shroud, believed to show Jesus' image, and created a photo-fit image from ...
The panel in the smaller room is 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 by 8 feet (5.0 by 2.4 m). It consists of a central circle containing an image of characters from Roman mythology , Bellerophon killing the Chimera . This has been interpreted in a more Christian context as representing good defeating evil.