Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, The Flagellation, The Crowning with Thorns and The Falling with the Cross – this is the cycle of four lateral paintings of the Passion of Christ produced in ...

If you were painting the face of Jesus in Rembrandt’s time — the 17th century — you had three sources to turn to: the Veil of Veronica, the Mandylion of Edessa and the Lentulus Letters.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links.

Midshipmen at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy erupted in raucous applause last week when Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy called for a painting of Jesus to be brought up from the flood ...

CHICAGO — The first time the Rev. Lettie Moses Carr saw Jesus depicted as black, she was in her 20s. It felt “weird,” Carr said. Until that moment, she had always thought Jesus was white. At ...

Imagine if Jesus Christ was born not in a manger in Bethlehem, but in a stable during the Joseon Kingdom in Korea. This is exactly what the late master artist Woonbo Kim Ki-chang did in the series ...

Jesus's portrait was first spotted in the 1920s in the ruins of Shivta, an old farming village in the heart of the Negev desert, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southwest of Be’er Sheva.

Church officials have gone ape after a pensioner tried to restore a faded painting and ended up making Jesus Christ look like a monkey. 80-year-old Celia Gimenez decided to touch up the worn ...

Paintings depict muscular Jesus VERSAILLES, Ky., Aug. 29 (UPI) -- A Kentucky artist is taking a page from Rembrandt's book by giving a makeover to the image of Jesus Christ , this time by adding ...