History ImageLinks / Jesus

** This artist's depiction of a bible verse which more or less says "see me knocking at the door of someone who's been alone for a long time; if they open up, I'll invite them to dinner" was considered the most culturally influential depiction of Jesus of its time, inspired several works of music in its time[[note]]And later as well: including the background setting for Johnny Cash's and Tom Wait's [[https://genius.com/Tom-waits-down-there-by-the-train-lyrics Down There By the Train]] - probably[[/note]] - and gave rise to much popular devotion in the late Victorian period. Engraved reproductions were widely hung in nurseries, schools and church buildings - a fact which recent works sometimes shout out to by hanging this picture or similar pictures there (which may or may not include the Fat Lady depicted in almost the same way, and acting as a doorway no less, in ''Franchise/HarryPotter'').

* [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Hunt-light-of-the-world.jpeg/320px-Hunt-light-of-the-world.jpeg The Light of the World]] by William Holman Hunt

* [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Brooklyn_Museum_-_Jesus_Ministered_to_by_Angels_%28J%C3%A9sus_assist%C3%A9_par_les_anges%29_-_James_Tissot_-_overall.jpg Christ Assisted by Angels]] by James Tissot

** Otto Dix painted this out of gratitude that he and his family had survived the holocaust. It's part religious votive painting, part self-portrait of a concentration camp survivor.

** Instead of narrating a version of the Last Supper where Jesus institutes bread and wine as a symbol of giving His life[[note]]thus instituting the Christian ritual of the Eucharist which does just that to this day[[/note]], foreshadowing and giving meaning to the later heroic sacrifice on the cross (that appears in the other three [[Literature/TheFourGospels Gospels]]), John the Apostle's account has a story of Christ washing the Disciples' feet[[note]]This story being a favourite theme of Tintoretto's, with at least six [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Washing_the_Disciples%27_Feet_(Tintoretto) known works]] on the subject[[/note]]. God [[GodInHumanForm Himself]] taking NiceToTheWaiter up to eleven by performing for others what was at the time seen as the most demeaning of duties (especially if you're walking around in sandals all day) illustrates by example the whole point of one of Jesus' two core teachings: acting with humble humanity and charity towards others.[[note]]Charity is the English word for the Latin ''caritas'', unconditional love; so this is generally translated as "love others just as you love yourself, and do unto them just as you would have them do unto you". In case you want to know, the other of the two main points is a reiteration and affirmation of the older biblical "love God with all your being".[[/note]]

** Instead of narrating a version of the Last Supper where Jesus institutes bread and wine as a symbol of giving His life[[note]]thus instituting the Christian ritual of the Eucharist which does just that to this day[[/note]] foreshadowing and giving meaning to the later heroic sacrifice on the cross (that appears in the other three [[Literature/TheFourGospels Gospels]]), John the Apostle's account has a story of Christ washing the Disciples' feet[[note]]This story being a favourite theme of Tintoretto's, with at least six [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Washing_the_Disciples%27_Feet_(Tintoretto) known works]] on the subject[[/note]]. God [[GodInHumanForm Himself]] taking NiceToTheWaiter up to eleven by performing for others what was at the time seen as the most demeaning of duties (especially if you're walking around in sandals all day) illustrates by example the whole point of one of Jesus' two core teachings: acting with humble humanity and charity towards others.[[note]]Charity is the English word for the Latin ''caritas'', unconditional love; so this is generally translated as "love others just as you love yourself, and do unto them just as you would have them do unto you". In case you want to know, the other of the two main points is a reiteration and affirmation of the older biblical "love God with all your being".[[/note]]

** Being from Sydney, this window depicts the Good Shepherd in front of an Australian landscape - and in the death world that is Australia, the old joke about what ''isn't'' trying to kill you being "''some of'' the sheep" is very much true (especially if you're walking around it in sandals). Though in first century Galilee, as a shepherd you were one tough cookie ''anyway'' - things like fighting off a hungry mountain lion with just a staff are no joke at all. Based on Jesus' self-description as the good shepherd "who lays down his life for the sheep", the image of the Good Shepherd is the most common of the symbolic representations of Christ found in early Christian art before Christian imagery could be made explicit. The form of the image showing a young man carrying a lamb around his neck was very similar to the much older pagan kriophoros: it was impossible to say whether the image was created with the intention of having a Christian significance. This form of depiction continued to be used when and where Christianity no longer needed to be hidden.

** Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the ''Spanish'' renaissance - and so aquired El Greco ("that Greek dude") as [[SomeCallMeTim a nickname]]. The artist went along with it: normally signing paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, and often adding the word Κρής (Krḗs), which means "from Crete" (the largest of the Greek islands). This is [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/El_Salvador_%28El_Greco%29.jpg/800px-El_Salvador_%28El_Greco%29.jpg another picture]] of Jesus by El Greco, the face of which is also a self-portrait.[[note]]Taking up a mirror and painting pictures as partial self-portraits when the subjects or rather models for them were either not available or not affordable to sit for pictures is actually not that uncommon among artists, particularily in times before you could just snap a photo and the model had to sit through all of the painting process (and be paid for it); so we know what a bunch of artists approximately looked like by their religious art. Jesus in particular not only had El Greco and Otto Dix from this page sitting in for Him, but a bunch of other artists as well - most famously [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer Dürer]], who was a case of LooksLikeJesus ''anyway''.[[/note]]

** Originally painted by Del Parson[[note]]An account of how the deviation from the usual [[NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals lamb]]-over-shoulder-shorthand [[ThrowItIn came about]] can be found [[http://delparson.com/gallery_pages/lost_lamb.html here]][[/note]], this picture is ''the'' go to template for "a picture of Jesus" all over the internet - "hung" in lots of collections and pages, and probably the one which most parodies or memes involving such a picture are based off (usually involving something else in place of the sheep, like a velociraptor in [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arkisfull.jpg this one]] skewering at "what measure is a non-cute?"). This makes it one of the most influential depictions of Jesus in its time - that is, here and now.

* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lost_lamb_jesus.jpg The Lost Lamb]] by Del Parson (current page image and winner of the tropers' image pickin contest)

** This artist's depiction of a bible verse which more or less says "see me knocking at the door of someone who's been alone for a long time; if they open up, I'll invite them to dinner" was considered the most culturally influential depiction of Jesus of its time, inspired several works of music in its time[[note]]And later as well: including the background setting for Johnny Cash's [[https://genius.com/Johnny-cash-down-there-by-the-train-lyrics Down There By the Train]] - probably[[/note]] - and gave rise to much popular devotion in the late Victorian period. Engraved reproductions were widely hung in nurseries, schools and church buildings - a fact which recent works sometimes shout out to by hanging this picture or similar pictures there (which may or may not include the Fat Lady depicted in almost the same way, and acting as a doorway no less, in ''Franchise/HarryPotter'').