The image is probably the earliest representation of Jesus on the cross, and predates by about 200 years the Christian 5th-century depictions of the crucifixion featuring a loincloth. Third ...

Like much previous Christian art, the emphasis remained on Jesus’ victory over death ... of the cross only began to emerge in the 5th century and would remain rare until the 6th.

An image of a female bishop, who spread the gospel in the Fifth Century ... 4's programme Jesus' Female Disciples: The New Evidence, and will air next weekend. The catacomb wall paintings ...

One of the biggest pieces missing from biblical accounts of Jesus ... century CE, but a new papyrus fragment appears to contain an even older piece of the text—one that dates from the 4th or 5th ...

We are in the 21st Century," he said. "The Popes of the Baroque period would be over the moon if a painting made people engage with how Jesus might or might not have looked." – art historian ...

Art experts don't get ... We are in the 21st Century," he said. There's been social media out-cry about a poster featuring a handsome, young Jesus (Credit: Getty Images) "The Popes of the Baroque ...