Posted on 05/05/2015 11:16:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
Wow. That’s David Copperfield.
Now this is weird.
Would have expected a swarthy, Jewish looking chap. This looks like an artwork rendition of an angel face (yes, yes, real angels don’t look like this). Kid! Put down that hammer! Yer too delicate to be a carpenter!
Kinda funny how the world has so many busts, statues, carvings, paintings, sketches and even shrouds with “Authorities” proclaiming them to be renditions of particular individuals when THERE ARE NO NAMES ON THESE OBJECTS IDENTIFYING WHO THEY ARE.
On what part of the Shroud of Turin is the label located with Jesus name on it? It may well be his for real but no one has actually established that for certain.
(PS, and those who claim Jesus didn’t exist are just morons.)
Rant off.
Well that is what that kid said in the book “Heaven Is For Real”
Ping!
Israel/Palestine was the crossroads of the ancient world between Europe, Asia, and Egypt. That is one of the reasons it was so fought over and could not establish itself as a kingdom except when there was power vacuums in Babylon and Egypt, such as when the Kingdom of Saul, Jonathan, and David arose. . . and for a time flourished. However, that crossroads meant that the people intermarried with people from many cultures as they passed through. . . or were forced into different locals. Mitochondrial DNA studies show that some Jews are descended from European females in the distant past. . . and today approximately 35% of the Levantine Jews are of a genotype that are not the "swarthy, Jewish looking chap" type you are expecting, but can be tall, lanky and European in appearance. . . some with darker to lighter hair. Recall that the Greeks had ruled Egypt for some three and a half centuries.
A census of a first century Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem, conducted in the 1980s, found that male skeletons averaged 5' 8 3/8" tall. . . 1/8" shorter than the average height of men in the United States today. Their Roman male conquerers averaged 5' 5 1/2" tall. Given a normal height distribution, heights of Jewish men of over six feet was not unusual, just as it is in today's America, and in fact several such skeletons were counted in the cemetery. They were rarer in Rome.
However, I do tend to agree with you that the 2004 regression shows a lot of pious artistic license and made the boy a tad too angelic. (grin) I detect a slight (maybe more than slight) religious bent to the artist who programed the regression. . . and perhaps he/she put a little too much female into the mix?
Wanda Sykes?
I've seen David Copperfield. He's entertaining, but he's no Jesus Christ.
One of the more beautiful praise songs, ever.
It's the nose. I attended a lecture by a local professor who stated that the Man of the Shroud had a break in his nose, NOT THE BONE, but the cartilage that extends past the bone. This gave the nose a somewhat crooked appearance. The renderer didn't seem to take that into consideration, probably not wanting to deviate too much from the Shroud itself. Stretch the picture a little, cover the nose a bit, and he actually does look like a young, handsome boy. A straighter, shorter nose would have been more age-appropriate.
Being Italian myself, I thought as you did: I had a little button nose as a kid; it didn't look more pronounced, ethnic, until I got older. Same with everybody I grew up with, I guess...
His eyes have been described a blue, green, sea-green and gray green. I lean towards hazel as hazel eyes appear all the colors named, depending on the color of clothing and objects around the person.
I am disappointed with this regression version - and I note that the nose, particularly, appears wrong/ It seems they didn't account for the broken nose on the face in the shroud...and rendered a young Jesus with the broken nose also -
But this inspire me - I may try my hand at a 'young" Jesus.
One I did years ago - pastel on mylar
Mylar?..................
“Mylar?”
Yes. I use the ‘one side mat finish’ - it has good tooth...and can be ‘fixed’ with workable fixative as it progresses.
Holds the colors true - and is archival
(I like to experiment - I like Bristol board for pencil -
and I do silver point - have to prepare surface with several layers of gesso (easier than making rabbit glue and grinding down bones for powder like the Old Masters! ;)...)
Wow. That painting of Jesus looks like David Copperfield. (or Kenny Loggins).
I work with ‘mylar’ every day in my job.
It’s a thin heat resistant plastic used in electronics as an insulator. It can be in sheets or on a roll like masking tape. It is also bought in pre-cut forms like washers and squares for mounting transistors that get hot, since it has excellent thermal properties.
It is also used in manufacturing electronic components, capacitors for instance, since it is an insulator and is very stable over time and heat exposure.
Is the mylar you use clear when new?
If so, then after you paint the portrait and it has dried, try shining a light from BEHIND the portrait some time. You may be pleasantly surprised...................
Looks kinda Cryllic...................
Huh? What’s “Cryllic”?
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