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Wilson, Ian, on Christ Portraits
Ian Wilson on Christ Portraits from the Mysterious Shroud
Importantly, neither the distinctive Shroud-like Christ portraits nor the facial markings associated with them, are to be found datable before the sixth century. Many pre-sixth-century portraits of Jesus show him as an Apollo-like, beardless youth. Others, although of a bearded, long-haired type, lack the precision, frontality, uniformity of features, and Vignon facial markings so predominant from the sixth century on. Writing in the fifth century, St. Augustine complained that the portraits of Jesus in is time were 'innumerable in concept and design' for the good reason that 'We do not know of his external appearance, nor that of his mother.' The change came only in the sixth century.
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