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1. www.churchtimes.co.uk › articles › 2021Global Images of Christ: Challenging Perceptions at Chester ...

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   Oct 8, 2021 · The exhibition, made up of more than 50 paintings, African and Chinese sculptures, and orthodox icons, seeks to challenge the Western depiction of Jesus Christ and his followers. The Dean says: “We are very familiar with pictures of Jesus Christ cast in our Western European image.

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3. www.deseret.com › 2014/9/26 › 2054933112 awe-inspiring photos of Jesus Christ from across the world

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   Sep 26, 2014 · Want to see how Jesus is making his impact across the world? Here are 12 photos of Jesus taken within the last year.

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4. broadview.org › the-many-faces-of-jesusThe many faces of Jesus | Broadview Magazine

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   Barrie Schwortz’s photographs of the Shroud of Turin, a roughly four-metre-long burial cloth said to have retained the imprints of Jesus’ features, have been exhibited the world over. Schwortz was a photographer on the team of scientists that examined the shroud in 1978.

5. faithhub.net › christ-around-the-world8 Depictions of Christ from Around the World | FaithHub

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   Jesus Christ was born to Mary, a Jewish woman of first-century Palestine then called Roman Judea. Yet almost every picture we see of Jesus in America is quite similar to this famous picture – shoulder-length brown hair, brown or blue eyes, neatly trimmed beard and very, very European.

6. www.newstatesman.com › what-did-jesus-really-lookWhat did Jesus really look like? - New Statesman

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   • An Elusive Face
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   The question of what Jesus looked like is complicated by the absence of any description of his physical qualities in early Christian texts. This isn’t because appearance in general wasn’t important in antiquity; indeed, we have a description of the apostle Paul in a third century narrative about his work. Acts of Paul and Thecla (2.3), an apocrypha...

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   The earliest pictures we have of Jesus come from frescoes painted on the walls of catacombs and carvings made to decorate stone coffins. These pictures generally come from the third century, about 200 years after Jesus’s death, so none of them could have been done by an eyewitness to the living Jesus. This fresco, painted on the wall of a third-cen...

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   It is no surprise that many contemporary depictions of Jesus show him as representing what is upheld by Western standards of “normative” (that is, culturally imposed and valued) male beauty. This goes equally for formal portraits displayed in places of worship and for the phenomenon of pareidolia, images of Christ (or other revered figures) that pe...

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   Finally, why do we keep asking ourselves what Jesus looked like? As Michael Peppard notes in his article, “Was the Presence of Christ in Statues? The Challenge of Divine Media for a Jewish Roman God”, the desire to know what Jesus looked like is far from uniquely a post-modern quest; in the 19th century, Flaubert’s The Temptation of Saint Anthony, ...

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7. www.nytimes.com › 2004/02/21 › artsWhat Did Jesus Really Look Like? - The New York Times

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   Feb 21, 2004 · The two most popular images of Jesus in the early Middle Ages were the anodyne representations of the face of Jesus on Veronica's veil (from vera icon, or ''true icon''), the cloth that...

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   What is 'global images of Christ'?

   • “GLOBAL Images of Christ: Challenging Perceptions” is “a great mosaic of images from around the world”, the Dean of Chester, the Very Revd Dr Tim Stratford, says. The exhibition, made up of more than 50 paintings, African and Chinese sculptures, and orthodox icons, seeks to challenge the Western depiction of Jesus Christ and his followers.

   Global Images of Christ: Challenging Perceptions

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   What is Jesus Christ exhibition?

   • The exhibition, made up of more than 50 paintings, African and Chinese sculptures, and orthodox icons, seeks to challenge the Western depiction of Jesus Christ and his followers. The Dean says: “We are very familiar with pictures of Jesus Christ cast in our Western European image.

   Global Images of Christ: Challenging Perceptions

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   What are some good images of Jesus?

   • United Church artist Willis Wheatley’s Jesus Christ, Liberator (popularly known as “Laughing Jesus”) and Stanley Spencer’s Christ in the Wilderness: The Scorpion are two of my favourite images of Jesus. In 1973, Wheatley challenged conventional characterizations of Jesus by portraying him in the throes of a belly laugh.

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   Does Jesus look European?

   • Almost every picture we see of Jesus makes him look European, but He came for and is for everyone. In cultures around the world, he looks the part. Jesus Christ was born to Mary, a Jewish woman of first-century Palestine then called Roman Judea.

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   What is the most reproduced image of Jesus?

   • Chicago painter Warner Sallman’s Head of Christ is a case in point. Painted in 1935, Sallman’s Jesus has elegant dirty-blond tresses. It is the most reproduced image of Jesus, copied more than 500 million times. In an experiment, Morgan gathered over 500 anecdotal responses to Sallman’s Christ. “Several people said, ‘It’s a photograph of Jesus.’

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   What does Jesus look like?

   • In cultures around the world, he looks the part. Jesus Christ was born to Mary, a Jewish woman of first-century Palestine then called Roman Judea. Yet almost every picture we see of Jesus in America is quite similar to this famous picture – shoulder-length brown hair, brown or blue eyes, neatly trimmed beard and very, very European.

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9. www.alamy.com › stock-photo › jesus-christ-englandJesus christ england great britain uk Stock Photos and Images

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