In an episode of Mysteries of the Church, an Emmy-nominated documentary style program based in New York that examines the many teachings and beliefs of the Catholic faith, Amanda Luyster, lecturer in the visual arts department at the College of the Holy Cross, talks about Jesus’ depiction in art for the past two thousand years.
Luyster reasoned, “In the gospel of Matthew when Jesus is going to be arrested, Judas has to go over and kiss him and that’s because Jesus looks so much like the rest of his disciples. Otherwise, he is unremarkable. Judas has to go over and kiss him to single him out. So, what we know is Jesus looked like the other people around him.”
This "Holy Cross in the News" item by Sara Bovat '14.
