Jesus Print

This is an embellished print of my original painting. It’s printed on lovely textured paper with added details in neon and shiny interference paint, making each piece unique. Size is A4 (297x210mm).

This painting is influenced by the piece created by Bas Uterwijk, Who says that he:
“used several cultural depictions of Jesus of Nazareth of Byzantine and Renaissance origin including Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi”, and the Turin Shroud, tweaking the ethnicity to a more convincing Middle-Eastern face.”
He added: “I was happy with the result as a representation of a collective cultural depiction but at the same time I felt it lacked any historical accuracy.
“So I changed the hair and beard to a more credible length and style for the time and region and I brought in elements found in some Fayum mummy portraits, pushing the renaissance art to the background.
“The result is an artistic impression of how this man could have looked, more than it is a scientific search for an exact likeness.”

Joan Taylor, the author of What Did Jesus Look Like, who has spent years studying the subject, said it was likely he was about 5 foot 5 inches tall, the average height found in skeletal remains from males at the time. The scholar, an expert in Christian origins, added: “He would have had dark skin and probably had shortish black hair - long hair was very unusual in the 1st Century - a beard and wore sandals.

The image echoes the work done by Richard Neave, an expert in forensic facial reconstruction, who attempted to recreate the face of a first-century Judean man like Jesus in 2001.

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