The many faces of Christ
Subtitle: portraying the Holy in the East and West, 300 to 1300
By: Michele Bacci
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781780232683
Subjects: Face
Description: Thanks to current portrayals of Jesus of Nazareth, we are apt to think of him as having long hair and a short beard. But, the holy scriptures do not describe Christ's physiognomy, and his representations are inconsistent in early Christian and medieval arts. How did this long-haired archetype come to be accepted in the late ninth century as the standard iconography of the Son of God? To answer this question, The Many Faces of Christ examines the complex historical and cultural dynamics underlying the making and final establishment of Christ's image between late antiquity and the early Renaissance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.