University of Otago provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. When Jesus is shown on the cross, he is almost always depicted wearing a loincloth around his waist. We now know ...

The cross, or crucifix ... but still not Jesus’ death. Harley-McGowan writes: it is clear that the earliest representations of deaths in early Christian art were pointed in their focus on ...

Jesus was both fully human and fully divine." The art was also affected by what people were going through at the time. "Images of Christ on the Cross became particularly pitiful after the Black ...

None of these things are in the Bible, but they are alive in the minds of particularly imaginative Christians, or just those who want some easy engagement ... AI Jesus. Some AI art experts fear ...

For many, the image of Jesus is that of a white man with wavy blond hair and blue eyes -- kind of like Jeffrey Hunter in 1961's "King of Kings." But a new film, "Color of the Cross," shows the ...

Jesus may not have died nailed to the cross because there is no evidence that the Romans crucified prisoners two thousand years ago, a scholar has claimed. The legend of his execution is based ...

Science and archaeology offer insights into ancient artifacts that could be linked to Jesus Christ ... piece of a cross,” said excavation team leader Gülgün Köroğlu, an art historian ...

For more than 30 years, the Rev. Bruce Stewart has encouraged people to gather at the National Gallery of Art and contemplate the “Stations of the Cross” — a series of 14 deeply painful ...

It seems like an easy question to answer ... nowhere do they specify that Jesus was nailed to his cross. We have such specific images in our minds of this scene that this may come as a shock ...

The cross, or crucifix, is arguably the central image of Christianity. What’s the difference between the two? A cross is just that - an empty cross. It stands as a statement that Jesus is no ...