Rembrandt Paintings Changed How World Saw Christ By Lou Baldwin Source: Catholic News Service Published: Sunday, September 04, 2011 PHILADELPHIA (CNS)—Matthew, Mark, Luke and John told us all about what Jesus said and did, but not one of them mentioned what he looked like. The vaguely European-featured Jesus with a brown beard and hair was pretty much the standard for most of history, at least until Rembrandt van Rijn, the greatest painter, draftsman and printmaker of the Dutch Golden Age, came along. In the mid-17th century he and students at his Amsterdam studio painted a series of at least eight...