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A Sandro Botticelli portrait of Jesus Christ with bloodshot eyes and a halo of tiny, weeping angels sold for $45.4 million on Thursday in the latest sign of the art market’s resilience.
An eagle-eyed art trader in Austria bought a painting of Jesus Christ — and discovered a secret portrait of Jesus hidden underneath that was covered up during conservative Victorian times.
Figure 3. Isaiah’s vision of Jesus riding a donkey and Muhammad riding a camel, al-Biruni, al-Athar al-Baqiyya ‘an al-Qurun al-Khaliyya (Chronology of Ancient Nations), Tabriz, Iran, 1307-8.
A Jesus portrait that has hung in a southern Ohio school district since 1947 was taken down Wednesday, because of concerns about the potential costs of a federal lawsuit against its display.
Researchers at the ruined desert city of Shivta in southern Israel have discovered a painting of the face of Jesus Christ, thought to have been made in the sixth century A.D.
CINCINNATI (AP) — A Jesus portrait that has hung in a southern Ohio school district since 1947 was taken down Wednesday, because of concerns about the potential costs of a federal lawsuit ...
Public-school officials in the Chanute, Kan., are trying to find a new home for a portrait of Jesus Christ after a civil-liberties group demanded its removal from the small town's middle school.
Taylor’s scholarly best guess about the appearance of Jesus argues much the same: “Overall,” she concludes that Jesus was “probably around 166 cm (5 feet 5f inches) tall, somewhat slim and ...
DUCHESNE, Utah (AP) Authorities in eastern Utah are looking for whoever vandalized a Mormon meetinghouse and spray-painted an anarchy symbol over a portrait of Jesus Christ.The Duchesne County ...
Botticelli’s “The Man of Sorrows,” a portrait of Jesus Christ, sold for $45.4 million at Sotheby’s in New York on Thursday, the latest sign of the art market’s resilience.