My gut instinct is to not have any images on the Bible character pages at all, tbh
Am I a weirdo?
I agree with Synchronicity on this one.
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I moreso question if The Bible should have a character page at all.
I'd like to apologize for all this.
Agree on no images on Bible character pages. Bibles generally aren't illustrated, and even if they are, our understanding of how their characters look is mostly an amalgamation of pop culture than anything else.
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Bowserbros wrote: "The image of Jesus on Characters: The Four Gospels is the exact same as the one on Useful Notes: Jesus."
I know - this was the exact reason I took it. As it had already gone through an image pickin' thread here https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1322232285097518200
and thus been agreed on by several people, taking this image and not just going ahead and taking another (which would take up extra storage and not have been selected by several people) was sort of the point.
If you want a different one, any of yours are fine too, though. Except maybe the historical reconstruction one as it wouldn't be identified with the character without an explanation, which explanation is more something for a footnote than a folder image?
Edited to add: I like the stained glass image Bowserbros posted best.
Edited by Aurorula on May 22nd 2023 at 5:57:45 PM
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How about this one
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Not big on that because the dark hair, dark clothing, and dark background all sorta blend into one another, which would be especially pronounced at wiki size.
I like 1.1 the best.
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"the dark hair, dark clothing, and dark background all sorta blend into one another"
Yeah, that's sort of the artist's point (and also the reason why I like the picture, because it's such a minimalistic one compared to the overdone ones which are way too common).
There are better versions of that same picture than the current wiki one where that intended effect is even more pronounced, like this one
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This is past the clocking point. Since the UN pic was chosen by a thread and consensus in the thread is to pull the image from the character folder, I've gone ahead and done that.
Closing.
The image of Jesus on Characters.The Four Gospels is the exact same as the one on UsefulNotes.Jesus. I know that there's a bit more leeway when it comes to character pages, but nevertheless, it would probably be best to use different images for the two pages, especially since one page covers Jesus as depicted in Christianity and another covers Jesus as depicted across religions, culture, and historiography. Based on what I could find, I managed to find some alternate suggestions for either one of the pages:
The last one is a 2001 scientific reconstruction, so it would probably fit best on the useful notes page.
EDIT: slight grammatical fix.
Edited by bowserbros on May 18th 2023 at 3:24:38 AM
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