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Anointing of Jesus. Mary Magdalene is traditionally depicted with a vessel of ointment, in reference to the Anointing of Jesus. The anointings of Jesus ’s head or feet are events recorded in the four gospels. The account in Matthew 26, Mark 14, takes place on Holy Wednesday, while the account in John 12 takes place 6 days before Passover at ...
The Healing of the Paralytic – one of the oldest known depictions of Jesus, [ 18] from the Syrian city of Dura Europos, dating from about 235. Initially Jesus was represented indirectly by pictogram symbols such as the ichthys (fish), the peacock, or an anchor (the Labarum or Chi-Rho was a later development).
Christ the Redeemer (Portuguese: Cristo Redentor, standard Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈkɾistu ʁedẽˈtoʁ]) is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French-Polish sculptor Paul Landowski and built by Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with French engineer Albert Caquot.
Last Supper, by Dagnan-Bouveret, 1896. There are two major scenes shown in depictions of the Last Supper: the dramatic announcement of the betrayal of Jesus, and the institution of the Eucharist. After the meal the further scenes of Jesus washing the feet of his apostles and the Farewell Discourse (farewell of Jesus to his disciples) are also ...
Year. 1940. 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]
Christ in majesty in a mandorla, surrounded by emblems of the evangelists: ivory plaques on a wooden coffret, Cologne, first half of the 13th century ( Musée de Cluny) Christ in Majesty or Christ in Glory ( Latin: Maiestas Domini) [ 1] is the Western Christian image of Christ seated on a throne as ruler of the world, always seen frontally in ...
The race and appearance of Jesus, widely accepted by researchers to be a Judean from Galilee, [ 1] has been a topic of discussion since the days of early Christianity. Various theories about the race of Jesus have been proposed and debated. [ 2][ 3] By the Middle Ages, a number of documents, generally of unknown or questionable origin, had been ...
Detectives took the Turin Shroud, believed to show Jesus' image, and created a photo-fit image from the material. They used a computer program to reverse the aging process. After reducing his jaw ...