Portraying the Holy in the East and West, 300 to 1300
by
Michele Bacci
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
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...