The classic image of a bearded, long-haired Jesus emerged as the favorite in the sixty century. Early Christians painted Jesus?s hair in many different ways? long or short, curly or straight, bearded or clean-shaven. There?s even a bald Jesus on display in the British museum. The artists probably weren?t attempting to create a historically accurate image of the man. The New Testament offers virtually no physical description of him, so they would have based the portraits on their own, diverse ideas of what a god should look like. Some philosophers, like St. Augustine, appreciated the diverse ways of portraying the incarnate Jesus. He thought ineffability was more consistent with divinity. It?s easy to paint a man, he agued, but hard to paint a god.
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