Rembrandt's own early work reflects some of these influences. In Christ and the Woman Taken ... by choosing a Jewish model. In many pictures that hang in church schoolrooms (or in our mind's eye), ...

The Face of Jesus” examines two images of Christ — the Shroud of Turin and the Veil of Manoppello — as well as the image of ...

more intimate image of Christ in the 1640s. Earlier in his career, Rembrandt was more given to turbulent scenes from the Gospel, full of sharp light and emphatic gestures, as when he first ...

“Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus” brings together six small ... In sum, he is the most beautiful of all mortals.” There were also images of Christ that had circulated for centuries, based ...

‘‘Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus’’ debuts ... years rigidly represented Christ as an unemotional and formalized figure. These ‘‘true’’ images of Jesus were copied from ancient ...