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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]does anyone really think Christianity would have taken off as it did, in Rome, then France, Spain, England and western Europe if Jesus had been portrayed as he likely looked? C'mon.  Without the portraits/iconography that some people seem to want removed the religion would never have taken off the way it did.  It would be a minor world religion.[/quote]

Hah, I had thought the same thing. If images of Jesus were portrayed more accurately, and not a tall white blonde handsome man, and instead a short, hairy, more robust, olive, likely large nosed ethnic man... I don't think the religion would have taken off as well. I definitely think the imagery of Jesus was a calculation based on appeal. [/quote]

Depictions were art, of course, with interpretation and license taken by the artists. Famously, wealthy families in Northern Europe commissioned religious art and the artist made sure that the image looked like someone in the family, or perhaps a mistress, as with Agnès Sorel as Madonna Lactans.[/quote]

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