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Jan 12, 2019 · A notorious womanizer, Cesare fathered 11 known illegitimate children. Profile portrait of Cesare Borgia in the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, c. 1500–10. As papal warlord, Cesare rampaged across the neighboring Italian states, while at home anyone who stood in his way, including family and friends, was done away with.
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Sharalee Armitage Howard/ However, this remarkable little...
- The Oldest Known Person in America Passes Away at The Age of 114
Lessie Brown, believed to be the oldest person in America,...
- The 110-Yr-Old Tree Stump That Became a Library
The Manoppello Image is a piece of linen cloth depicting the face of Jesus Christ (17.5 cm wide and 24 cm high) that is stored in a church in the village of Manoppello, Italy. The church, known as Santuario del Volto Santo, is part of a monastery belonging to Capuchin friars.
The painting depicts Jesus Christ in anachronistic blue Renaissance attire, making the sign of the cross with his right hand, while holding a transparent, non-refracting crystal orb in his left, signalling his role as Salvator Mundi and representing the 'celestial sphere' of the heavens.
- In Search of The Holy Face
- Christ as Self-Portraitist
- In Whose image?
- White Jesus Abroad
- Legacies of Likeness
The historical Jesus likely had the brown eyes and skin of other first-century Jews from Galilee, a region in biblical Israel. But no one knows exactly what Jesus looked like. There are no known images of Jesus from his lifetime, and while the Old Testament Kings Saul and David are explicitly called tall and handsomein the Bible, there is little in...
The first portraits of Christ, in the sense of authoritative likenesses, were believed to be self-portraits: the miraculous “image not made by human hands,” or acheiropoietos. This belief originated in the seventh century A.D., based on a legend that Christ healed King Abgar of Edessa in modern-day Urfa, Turkey, through a miraculous image of his fa...
This phenomenon was not restricted to Europe: There are 16th- and 17th-century pictures of Jesus with, for example, Ethiopian and Indianfeatures. In Europe, however, the image of a light-skinned European Christ began to influence other parts of the world through European trade and colonization. The Italian painter Andrea Mantegna’s “Adoration of th...
As Europeans colonized increasingly farther-flung lands, they brought a European Jesus with them. Jesuit missionaries established painting schools that taught new converts Christian art in a European mode. A small altarpiece made in the school of Giovanni Niccolò, the Italian Jesuit who founded the “Seminary of Painters” in Kumamoto, Japan, around ...
Scholar Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey argue that in the centuries after European colonization of the Americas, the image of a white Christ associated him with the logic of empire and could be used to justify the oppression of Native and African Americans. In a multiracial but unequal America, there was a disproportionate representation of a white ...
Dec 25, 2018 · A baby Jesus statue stolen from a church crib during the 1930s has mysteriously reappeared almost 90 years later. The figurine was placed in the middle of the Nativity scene at Our Lady of...
- Jimmy Mccloskey
The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by American artist 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]
Apr 12, 2017 · Here’s what DNA analysis of relics purported to be from Jesus or his family can actually tell us.
