by fulltimestudent 3 Replies latest social current
Reconstructed, it looks like this:
Full report at: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-29480874
I'm not sure that any depictions have any significance, outside of the fat thact the artist and their patron, both agreed on a certain image. No tradition exists (to my knowledge) of Jesus looking like this or like that. The buyer and the artist (and in this case, the maker) all had to agree on an image that likely conformed to their own ideas of fashion and appearance.
Early photographs indicate that Jesus had shaved off his beard at times but got a terrible case of excema and let it grow out before his crucifix photo shoot.
I thought they found his beard just down the street from where they found this.
He's has been stylistically reimagined many times over the past 2000 years depending on which culture he was introduced to, so it's not inconcievable that a clean-shaven Jesus would show up at least once or twice (BTW, I'm no expert, but the style looks vaugely Greek).
