the portrait of the king in hell

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The face of Jesus?

from otwomd blog

The 3D image of Christ was made using the Shroud of Turin, the linen sheet believed to have been laid on the body of Jesus in his tomb, London’s Daily Telegraph reports. “There’s a long tradition in Christian theology and Christian history of seeking the face of Christ – of wanting to know what he was like as a man,” Catholic priest and author Father Jonathan Morris told US television network ABC News. But the new image of one of the key figures in Christianity – which will be unveiled on a History Channel program – is expected to rouse some controversy, as it is a far cry from the fair man painted by Renaissance artists.


actually, the Renaissance artists usually gave Jesus an olive skin and dark hair...only a few popular paintings in the English speaking areas had the blond Jesus.

the olive complexion in Raphael's Jesus (here, in a painting of the Transfiguration) was typical.


often the "fair" Jesus were deliberately made pale/bright because of the belief that those resurrected would be radiant, i.e. radiating light.



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the idea that the holy radiate light is related to the idea that everyone has an "Aura" which can be seen by the holy or by the adept.

This idea seems to be cross cultural, not only showing haloes in the saints but with Buddha. Example HERE.


This idea, that the very holy would radiate light, was used by Peter Jackson in the cinemetography in Lord of the Rings, where a post resurrection Gandalf ("I was sent back...") often was filmed in a spot light to make him seem as if he was light. example HERE.