Lesson 1The True Face ofLesus?
Rembrandt once painted a brooding version of Christ that differs widely from itsmore conventional,blond．haired predecessors,seen in a new show in Philadelphia．
①Google"Jesus"(you get a few hits)and you know what kind of images you'11find:Christ will almost always have a high forehead,blond．streaked locks parted in themiddle,a straight nose,a hipster beard,and that faraway look．That sameness ought toseem strange:the artists didn't exactly have the chance to paint him from life．ExceptRembrandt,sort of．Somewhere around 1 645,he went out into his Jewish neighborhood in Amsterdam,found a young man,dark,Semitic and brooding,and had him pose forsome radically new pictures of Christ．Six that survive have been assembled in a bigshow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art,where they face off against more conventionalChrists by Rembrandt and others．Looking at Rembrandt's"realistic"Jesus makes yourealize how stereotyped other images of him have been,from the Middle Ages right totoday．On Sunday,that stereotype,our commitment to it and Rembrandt's daringrevision will be the topic of an interfaith panel hosted by the Philadelphia museum．
②"There's a deep,almost hard．wired interest in a single model of Jesus,"saysDavid Morgan,the panel's keynote speaker and an expert off how Christ's image getsused．Once a picture of Christ gets codified in a culture,Morgan explains,believerstake it in almost with their mother's milk'until it gets"naturalized"as not just animage of their savior,but the necessary one.Morgan has made an especially close studyof our current"necessary"Christ--long．haired,straight．nosed,bearded--in an imagepainted in 1940 by a Chicago artist named Warner Sallman that has since soldsomething like 1 billion copies．(It ranks high on Google．)It is so ubiquitous,Morgansays,that"children lock onto the image,and they feel,'Yes,that is him．That is TheGuy．'"Even when sophisticated Christians know that Sallman's Christ has no factsbacking it up,they find they can't resist its pull．When Morgan surveyed contemporaryAmericans about it'one described it as"a true photo of Jesus,''and another said"Ialways believed that Sallman's portrait of Jesus was the one that looked most like Jesusreally looked when here on earth．"Other Christians,including Sallman himself,havesaid it matched holy visions they had of their savior．
③Amazingly,Morgan might have got similar answers 500 years ago．When an EasternOrthodox cleric visited Italy in 1438,he complained about how Western artists painted theirholy men．Not one of their figures was recognizable to his Eastern—trained eyes,he said,except of course Jesus Christ…with his regulation pale hair,parted in the middle over along face,high forehead,straight nose,and tidy beard．Even Leonardo da Vinci,whocould never bear to stick with a received idea,went conservative when it came time topaint a portrait of his savior,sometime around 1500．After a recent cleaning,an oldversion of his painting has been garnering headlines as the long—lost original,but there'snothing newsworthy"about what it shows:the portrait is a model of standard Christliness．with all the features that Sallman's painting still has．(It even has the san'le delicacy thatsome sterner Christians ilave attacked in Sallman's"girlish"Christ.
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