Two faces fascinated Rem­brandt van Rijn (1606–1669) over the course of his long and singular career—his own face and the face of Jesus. More than 90 self-portraits, spanning al­most the entire length ...

Since Jesus worked outdoors as a carpenter until he was about 30 years old, it is reasonable to assume he was more muscular and physically fit than westernized portraits suggest. His face was ...

This show gives viewers the opportunity to see all of Rembrandt’s known paintings and portraits of Jesus for the first time since the 1650s, when the Rembrandt declared bankruptcy.

Still, while claiming that Jesus was a particular human appearance of God, the early church did not look for descriptions or portraits of Jesus “from life.” In the earliest Christian images, Christ ...

Experts Reconstruct Face Of Jesus. ... Based on the earliest portraits of Jews, taken from a third century Syrian synagogue, the image was given curly short hair and a trimmed beard.

Rumors that the modern image of Jesus is modeled on Cesare Borgia, a 'gangster's son,' do not stand up to scrutiny.

No longer perpetually blond and blue-eyed, the Christian ideal of tolerance and inclusion is being depicted more often as what scholars agree he was: darker-skinned, with darker hair.

A Sandro Botticelli portrait of Jesus Christ with bloodshot eyes and a halo of tiny, weeping angels sold for $45.4 million on Thursday in the latest sign of the art market’s resilience.