What is your favorite painting of Christ?

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This can be the famous or the not-so-famous paintings, old or new.

Mine is ‘The Rescue’ by Nathan Greene, of Jesus with his staff reaching down to retrieve a lost black lamb who had gone astray. The lamb is on steep landscape before a gnarled wall of high roots, with a cliff and a waterfall in the background, showing that the lamb has indeed wandered from its calm pasture. Jesus, from the flat and stable ground that he stands upon, is reaching down to the retrieve the lamb. The image brought tears to my eyes. The inspiration of the painting is from Matthew 18: 12-14:

What do you think? If a shepherd has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.

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What does the white plumage(?) at the top of the sacred heart signify?
 
The Light of the World by William Holman Hunt. I can’t insert an image as I’m a trial member, but here is a link to this beautiful Pre-Raphaelite painting, which is in St Paul’s Cathedral in London.

stpauls.co.uk/Files/downloads/Light_of_the_world.jpg

Holman Hunt said he felt he was called to paint this picture and that the overgrown door has no handle on the outside, as it represents the obstinately shut mind which can only be opened from within.
 
I’ve always wondered why when Jesus was alive someone didn’t paint a picture of him. I would really like to know what Jesus look liked.
 
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The Sinai Pantocrator. I don’t know why exactly, I’ve always felt very drawn in by this image.

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You know it matches the Face on the Shroud of Turin, right?

While not a painting, that is my favorite image of HIM.

As to paintings, that one of His Head in profile, on a sepia background, from the 1800s.

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I can’t find it and unfortunately can’t remember if its one from my Mormon days which would be unfortunate…but it’s one where Jesus is holding a man up out of a very rough sea/water…does anyone know it?
 
I think these are lovely:

Christ in the House of Martha and Mary - Henryk Siemiradzki


Christ and Young Child - Carl Bloch
 
And I really like how Bloch has Christ looking at the viewer with this expression.

 
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