The rise of naturalism and realism in art also radically changed depictions of baby Jesus. Tempi Madonna by Raphael, c.1508, shows Jesus as natural and beautiful. Wikimedia Commons ...

Baby Jesus with a six-pack. | Bequest of Edward Fowles, 1971, Metropolitan Museum of Art // Public Domain The reasoning, like all things artistic in the Middle Ages, has to do with Jesus.

The Leonardo da Vinci painting the "Virgin of the Rocks" was hiding another image beneath its surface: a winged baby Jesus, a new X-ray examination has revealed. This isn't the first signal that ...

Why babies in medieval paintings look like ugly old men. ... That baby, painted around 1283 ... which literally means little man. "There's the idea that Jesus was perfectly formed and unchanged ...

It's a painting by Vincenzo Catena, and it's called The Rest on the Flight over Egypt (c. 1525), and this baby is just gorgeous. He has a really big head and a really small face. I always make a ...