The images in this gallery show Christ in both the “standard” version, and in Rembrandt’s updating. To read more about the face of Jesus in art, go to Blake Gopnik's article on our Art Beast ...

Two faces fascinated Rem­brandt van Rijn (1606–1669) over the course of his long and singular career—his own face and the face of Jesus. More than 90 self-portraits, spanning al­most the entire length ...

In 1656, Rembrandt’s passion for collecting art, weapons and exotica finally got the better of his pocketbook, and the master painter, so prolific, so brilliant, was forced to confront bankruptcy.

For almost 50 years, an oil sketch depicting Jesus on the cross was thought to be, in the words of art historian Horst Gerson, a “crude imitation” of the work of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van ...

Earlier in his career, Rembrandt was more given to turbulent scenes from the Gospel, full of sharp light and emphatic gestures, as when he first attempted to depict the "Emmaus" episode from the ...

But, according to “Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus” — a new exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that will subsequently head to the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Louvre in Paris ...

Easter Sunday is the day Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the most joyous and triumphant event in the Christian year. According to Christian faith, that ascension to eternal ...

In all likelihood, Jesus of Nazareth was shorter and darker-skinned than most of us imagine—if, in today’s image-glutted culture, we imagine him at all. St. Ignatius Loyola, in his Spiritual ...

Through x-ray scans, Verhave was able to detect that Rembrandt made several key changes throughout the creation of the piece — reiterating the belief that The Raising of the Cross was in-fact a ...

Rembrandt's Ecco homo (1634 ... which Jesus has already endured and will now undergo on the cross. To contemplate the distress of Jesus, fearful and alone, abandoned by the friends who had ...

"Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus" debuts Wednesday in Philadelphia, after its three-month premiere run at the Louvre Museum in Paris. It's the only East Coast stop for the exhibit, which continues ...