A previously unknown, 1,500-year-old painting of Christ’s face has been uncovered at a Byzantine church in Israel’s Negev desert. The discovery in the ancient Byzantine village of Shivta has thrilled ...

That's all, folks: Jesus Speaks to the Daughters of Jerusalem had been on display for two months before it was removed from an exhibition A painting in which Jesus and other biblical figures are ...

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. The two faint ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have brought a striking new face of early Christianity into view, uncovering a rare fresco that shows Jesus clean-shaven and youthful rather than bearded and severe. The image ...

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Jesus Christ is regarded by many to be more divine than human, so any earthly image of him could be considered tainted with idolatry. To avoid creative interpretation, the church dictated that ...

A mural featuring the pixelated face of Jesus painted on the side of a Second Avenue building is the latest offering from local artist Daniel Lopez. (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review) Buy this ...

It was an unholy mistake — that became one town’s miracle. In 2012, an amateur art restorer in the small village of Borja, Spain, turned her attention to a fresco of Jesus Christ called “Ecce Homo” ...

Jesus is also very much at a divine remove from the rest of us. Rembrandt's "Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery" (1644) shows Jesus as a godlike figure with long golden-red hair framing his face ...