Sallman’s painting culminates a long tradition of white Europeans creating and disseminating pictures of Christ made in their own image. The historical Jesus likely had the brown eyes and skin ...

It wasn’t only Warner Sallman’s Head of Christ that was depicted widely; a large proportion of actors who have played Jesus on television and film have been white with blue eyes. Pictures of Jesus ...

It wasn’t only Warner Sallman’s Head of Christ that was depicted widely; a large proportion of actors who have played Jesus on television and film have been white with blue eyes. Pictures of ...