His face: images of Christ in art

Historically, Jesus Christ's physical appearance remains a mystery. No one knows what he actually looked like, and nowhere in the gospels is he described. Yet the face of Christ is the most familiar and recognizable in Western iconography and for centuries the challenge of rendering the essential qualities of Christ's divine and human nature has dominated the creative lives of the greatest artists.This unique pictorial narrative portrays the life of Christ through 95 glorious colour reproductions of His face, an inspiring selection of images that illuminate with rare power and immediacy the story of Christ's youth, ministry, suffering, and triumph, complemented by appropriate quotations from the King James version of the Bible.The images represent the visions of artists from the twelfth century to the twentieth, including Giotto, Piero della Francesca, Raphael, Masaccio, Tintoretto, Rubens, Titian, Rembrandt, Van Dyke, Durer, Velazquez, Caravaggio, El Greco, and Dali.A true inspirational experience. His Face is an incomparable addition to the Christian family bookshelf, as well as a gift for all art lovers to cherish.