What is your favourite image of Jesus and Why?

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This picture reminds us of Our Savior’s love for babies – born and unborn.
And His pure love radiates from the painting.
 
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This by Rembrandt. This is the closest depiction (for me) if I could imagine
how he looks.
 
How about the “drinking buddy Jesus”??

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NOT!
 
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I love this one, because it was painted by an 8 year old prodigy that claims to have been getting visions since she was 4. With how gifted she is by God, it makes me think that maybe that is what Jesus looks like. There is also the story from Heaven is for Real where a young boy said this is what Jesus looked like.
 
OddBird said:
I like very much the Christ Pantocrator from the Sinai.
To me, his asymmetric face makes him look particularly alive.

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This is my favorite as well. I have one in my office, and one in the house. I find it interesting that the right side of Christ’s face appears relaxed, which is also the hand being raised as if in blessing, while the left side appears angry, as if in condemnation.
 
I’ve always liked this painting of the Holy Face by Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face (Celine Martin), sister of St. Therese of Lisieux. She used the Shroud of Turin as a model. It was entered into the International Exposition of Religious Art at Bois-le-Duc in the Netherlands in 1909. Her painting was awarded the grand prize.

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OddBird said:
I like very much the Christ Pantocrator from the Sinai.
To me, his asymmetric face makes him look particularly alive.

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That’s the image my Newman Center uses on our Mass banner (one of the ways we “Catholicize” the non-denominational chapel while we’re using it).
 
I like this one, at the beginning of my dad’s New Marian Missal.

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One of my favourites… I have many 🙂
 
That’s is such a great question thanks Therese11 for posting it.
I have so many favourites usually of biblical scenes, these are a few.

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The incredulity of St Thomas by Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano

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The last supper by Leonardo da Vinci

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Jesus walking on water by an unknown artist

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Sermon on the mount by Carl Heinrich Bloch

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Madonna by Roberto Ferruzzi

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Pieta by Michelangelo (my mini sculpture of it at home)
 
I have that Sacred Heart image on my bedroom door (not framed though).
 
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Since this thread has seemingly run its course, I thought I’d post a slightly O/T Aleteia article…

What did Jesus really look like?

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"…In the holy texts Jesus “walks, talks, heals, touches, drinks, eats, performs miracles, gets seized, spat on, beaten, whipped and crucified, but we do not have him visually described…”

…maybe just a researcher/author’s speculation, I’ll bet?!
 
Ah yes, I have heard her name and know of her cause for canonization. Had never known anything about the alleged apparitions, though.

This isn’t my diocese, but it’s not terribly far from me.
 
As for me, I really love the work of El Greco.
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