A previously unknown, 1,500-year-old painting of Christ’s face has been uncovered at a Byzantine church in Israel’s Negev desert. The discovery in the ancient Byzantine village of Shivta has thrilled ...

That's all, folks: Jesus Speaks to the Daughters of Jerusalem had been on display for two months before it was removed from an exhibition A painting in which Jesus and other biblical figures are ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have brought a striking new face of early Christianity into view, uncovering a rare fresco that shows Jesus clean-shaven and youthful rather than bearded and severe. The image ...

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If you were painting the face of Jesus in Rembrandt’s time — the 17th century — you had three sources to turn to: the Veil of Veronica, the Mandylion of Edessa and the Lentulus Letters. The two faint ...

A mural featuring the pixelated face of Jesus painted on the side of a Second Avenue building is the latest offering from local artist Daniel Lopez. (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review) Buy this ...

It was an unholy mistake — that became one town’s miracle. In 2012, an amateur art restorer in the small village of Borja, Spain, turned her attention to a fresco of Jesus Christ called “Ecce Homo” ...

In all likelihood, Jesus of Nazareth was shorter and darker-skinned than most of us imagine—if, in today’s image-glutted culture, we imagine him at all. St. Ignatius Loyola, in his Spiritual Exercises ...