HISTORICAL FACES HISTORICAL FACES

OF CHRISTOF CHRIST

JESUS ASTHE GOOD SHEPHERD

GOOD SHEPHERD

Catacomb painting

3rd c.

GOOD SHEPHERD

Christ the Good Shepherd, Asia Minor, probably Phrygia (central Turkey ), Early Christian c .270–280. Marble, 50 x 25.7 x 15.9 cm. Cleveland Museum of Art.

GOOD SHEPHERD

Also from the early period. Note again, Jesus is beardless youth, looking a lot like David.

GOOD SHEPHERD

Early Byzantine mosaic

GOOD SHEPHERD

Pieter Brueghel the Elder 1565

GOOD SHEPHERD

Contemporary Chinese

Yu Jiade

JESUS AS HUMAN & DIVINE

HUMAN & DIVINE

Bust of Christ, Ceiling detail, Catacomb of Commodilla

HUMAN & DIVINE

Bust of Christ, encaustic, sixth century, Sinai .

HUMAN & DIVINE

                                                                                                                                      

                          

Annunciation, Nativity, Adoration

Nicola Pisana, 1260 [Baptistry of the Pisa Cathedral]; imitation of an early church sarcophagus in the Graeco-Roman style

HUMAN & DIVINE

Shepherds come to Jesus

Giotto

HUMAN & DIVINE

Hieronymous Bosch, c. 1495

The Visit of the Magi

HUMAN & DIVINE

Adoration of the Shepherds

Titian, 1553

HUMAN & DIVINE

The Risen Christ

Contemporary stained glass

HUMAN & DIVINE

Contemporary Mexican icon

Emmaus

JESUS AS KING & JUDGE

KING/JUDGE

Christ reigning in heaven

Apse, San Vitale, Ravena

c. 500 A.D.

KING/JUDGE

Jesus represented as if he were an Emperor and his associates appear as members of his court. Here is a picture of the apse in the Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Rome.

KING/JUDGE

Unknown German, Hildesheim, about 1170s Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver, and ink on parchment

KING/JUDGE

Christ the King, surrounded by evangelists & saints, above the west door of Chartres Cathedral

KING/JUDGE

The carved stone wall behind the High Altar is the Ter Sanctus.

The dominant figure in the reredos is the Christ in Majesty, or the Majestus. His right hand is held in a gesture of blessing; his left hand holds an orb (a globe topped by a cross) that signifies his sovereignty over the entire world.

Washington National Cathedral

KING/JUDGE

Scenes from Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in the Sistene Chapel

KING/JUDGE

Contemporary Latin American graphic for Advent 1 C

JESUS AS TEACHER/RABBI

JESUS AS TEACHER/RABBI

Fra Angelico, 1450

JESUS AS TEACHER/RABBI

Carl Bloch, 1875

JESUS AS TEACHER/RABBI

Ain Vares,

Estonia

Broad Road, Narrow Gate

JESUS AS TEACHER/RABBI

Beatitudes

Contemporary African

JESUS AS TEACHER/RABBI

Sermon on the Mount

Pietro Annigoni, Italian contemporary

JESUS AS TEACHER/RABBI

Sermon

Contemporary

Mexican icon

JESUS AS TEACHER/RABBI

Woman at the Well, contemporary

Chinese

Li Wei San

JESUS AS SACRIFICIAL VICTIM

SACRIFICIAL VICTIM

Sarcophagus with Scenes from the Passion of Christ

SACRIFICIAL VICTIM

Crucifixion, San Damiano, painter

unknown, c. 1207.

This is the crucifix that inspired St.

Francis's conversion.

SACRIFICIAL VICTIM

The Isenheim Altarpiece, Matthias Grunewald (d. 1528); between 1512 and 1516, polyptych.

SACRIFICIAL VICTIM

Lorenzo Pécheux(1729 - 1821) "Crucifixion with the Virgin and Mary Magdalene"

SACRIFICIAL VICTIM

Marc Chagall

1938

SACRIFICIAL VICTIM

James B. Janknegt's1985

Cruxifiction at Barton Creek

SACRIFICIAL VICTIM

Contemporary African

SACRIFICIAL VICTIM

Contemporary Latin American

graphic for Good Friday

JESUS AS SAVIOR & REDEEMER

SAVIOR & REDEEMER

Raphael, 1520

Christ in Glory (chalk drawing)

SAVIOR & REDEEMER

Resurrection of Christ with

Reformers, Lucas Cranach the

Younger, 1556

SAVIOR & REDEEMER

El Greco, 1610-1614

SAVIOR & REDEEMER

Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet, 1706 Raising of Lazarus

SAVIOR & REDEEMER

Carl Block, 1875

Christ Healing by the Well in Bethseda

SAVIOR & REDEEMER

Contemporary African,

Healing of the Ten Lepers

SAVIOR & REDEEMER

Chinese

Bible paintings

Healing the Devil Possessed Man