Jesus Paintings

A LOOK AT

In the 6th century, Byzantine artists began to depict Jesus as a white male with facial hair and long middle-parted hair, even though he is depicted to have a bronze complexion in the Bible.

JESUS IN ART

MOST FAMOUS PAINTINGS OF JESUS

Ognissanti Madonna (1310) Giotto di Bondone

#1

Descent from the Cross (1435) Rogier van der Weyden

#2

Baptism of Christ (1470 – 1475)  Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci

#3

The Man of Sorrows in the Arms of a Virgin (1475 – 1479) Hans Memling

#4

The Last Supper (1495 – 1498) Leonardo da Vinci

#5

Disputation of the Holy Sacrament (1509 – 1510) Raphael

#6

Salvator Mundi (c. 1510) Leonardo da Vinci

#7

Christ Carrying the Cross (1577 – 1587) El Greco

#8

Christ Crucified (1632) Diego Velázquez

#9

Christ in the Realm of the Dead (1891 – 1894) Joakim Skovgaard

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