Medieval artists are not known for their ... “perfectly formed and unchanged,” Averett said. Therefore, paintings of Jesus showed him with adult features and physiques, even when the purported ...

Ever walked through the Medieval section of a museum and ... The “Homuncular Jesus” refers to the way that the infant Jesus was portrayed in art. “Homunculus” comes from the Latin meaning ...

To find the answer, I spoke to Matthew Averett, an art history professor at Creighton University who edited the anthology The Early Modern Child in Art and History. But really, just how ugly are ...

In the art world, we are used to seeing the ... Indeed, several animals are used in medieval iconography to depict Jesus, or more specifically, one of Jesus’s characteristics.

But medieval people drew upon this image in interesting ways, in both their art and poetry. One of the most challenging images for evangelical audiences might be Jesus as lover. How, in the ...

Whoever broke into a medieval French ... of any stolen work of art. “Because of the importance of the relic, because of everything in it, the whole Middle Ages, Jesus, everything.

A poster in the southern Spanish city of Seville that depicts a young, handsome Jesus wearing only a loincloth ... “There is nothing revolutionary in the painting, " García told Atlas news ...