HISTORICAL FACES OF CHRIST

JESUS AS THE GOOD SHEPHERD

GOOD SHEPHERD Catacomb painting 3 rd 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 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

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 This is the crucifix that inspired St. Francis's conversion.

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

SACRIFICIAL VICTIM Lorenzo Pécheux ( ) "Crucifixion with the Virgin and Mary Magdalene"

SACRIFICIAL VICTIM Marc Chagall 1938

SACRIFICIAL VICTIM James B. Janknegt's 1985 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,

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