[Alex Murphy]

....Catholicism in America has most certainly been tainted by protestantism. That piece you posted is from the National Shrine in Washington D.C. and I’ve always hated it.

Can you show me what a non-protestantised, authentic Catholic image of Jesus looks like?

Should it look like this?

Or this?

[0beron]

I’m not an art history guy, but there used to be fairly strict canons dealing with representations of Our Lord.

I think one of the best representations of Him so far are available in the computer reconstrurction of the Holy Shroud of Turin, a man of roughly 33 years with a beard and a very familiar expression, something we Catholics and Orthodox have seen in our Churches since the catacombs.