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The oldest existing paintings of Jesusas a person date back to around the late 2ndto 4thcentury and are primarily found in Roman catacombs. These early paintings were simple and often showed Jesus performing good deeds. 7. Good Shepherd Mosaic. Year Painted: c.425.
- Alexamenos graffito, 1st century. This “graffito,” representing a person looking at a donkey-headed man being crucified, was carved in plaster on a wall in Rome during the 1st century.
- The Good Shepherd, 3rd century. While the Gospels do not provide us with a physical description of Jesus, they do offer many figurative descriptions to describe him.
- Adoration of the Magi, 3rd century. Another image of Christ presented in the New Testament is the adoration of the Magi, described in Matthew 2:1-12. As a result, the “epiphany” was one of the most popular representations of the life of Christ during Christianity’s early days.
- Healing of the Paralytic, 3rd century. One of the miracles of Jesus chronicled in the Gospels—Matthew (9:1–8), Mark (2:1–12) and Luke (5:17–26)—sees him healing a p aralytic man at Capernaum, in modern-day Israel.
- Christ Pantocrator. Year: 537 AD. Style: Iconography. Location: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. The Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) Cathedral was at the heart of the Byzantine Empire.
- Ognissanti Madonna — Giotto di Bondone. Year: 1310. Style: Gothic. Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence. This altarpiece, painted for the Florentine Church of Ognissanti, had a profound impact on religious art.
- The Last Supper — Leonardo Da Vinci. Year: 1495–1498. Movement: High Renaissance. Location: Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. Da Vinci’s The Last Supper is probably the most important mural painting in the history of the world.
- Salvator Mundi — Leonardo da Vinci. Year: 1499–1510. Movement: High Renaissance. Location: Louvre, Abu Dhabi. In 2017, Salvator Mundi was sold by Christie’s in New York for $450.3 million, the most expensive painting ever sold at a public auction.
Apr 30, 2019 · Read more: 'Paul, Apostle of Christ' owes more to Coca-Cola than to the Bible. Visual images of Jesus painted by Europeans reflected those who painted him; only on rare occasions, ...
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Nov 15, 2018 · In an extremely rare early painting found in an ancient Israeli church, Jesus looks completely different from the long-haired, bearded Western image of him. Archaeologists from the University of ...
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Sep 23, 2021 · 62 cm x 48 cm. Location Currently Housed. Private Collection. A far more contentious depiction of Jesus and the crucifixion, Francis Bacon painted this picture while he was just around 24 years of age. Bacon, one of the few contemporary painters on the list, spent a lot of time working on religious works.
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).
