Atef Rizkalla, the family physician, examined the youth and certified that there were no traces of leukemia.
Another depiction, seen from the late 3rd century or early 4th century onwards, showed Jesus with a beard, and within a few decades can be very close to the conventional type that later emerged.
In the there is of "someone like a " in spirit form: "dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.
Schiller 1971 Lund Humphries, London.
He claims that these are due to the availability of the which he claims to be identical to the , via Constantinople to the artists.
From this, it is evident that some early Christians paid no heed to the historical context of Jesus being a Jew and visualised him solely in terms of their own social context, as a quasi-heroic figure, without supernatural attributes such as a.
However, while Western depictions increasingly aimed at , in Eastern icons a low regard for perspective and alterations in the size and proportion of an image aim to reach beyond earthly reality to a spiritual meaning.
See also The Two Faces of Jesus by Robin M.